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[絵本] 〔4〕 太閤記朝鮮軍記 前編

永島福太郎 編, 孟斎芳虎 画 · 1880 · 堤吉兵衛 · 19 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1880 by Tsutsumi Kichibei, with text by Nagashima Fukutaro and illustrations by Hosai Yoshitora, retelling Hideyoshi's Korean campaign for a popular readership. The woodblock prints show armoured samurai in dynamic poses with dense calligraphic captions and name labels, offering a designer strong examples of bold black-line graphic composition, dramatic figure silhouettes, and integrated vertical text panels.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library