[絵本] 〔９〕四国攻伐１号

永島福太郎編, 孟斎芳虎画 · 1880 · 堤吉兵衛 · 17 pictures

An 1880 Japanese ehon picture book, a woodblock-printed volume published by Tsutsumi Kichibei with text compiled by Nagashima Fukutaro and illustrations by Gessai Yoshitora, aimed at general readers of popular war narratives. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock prints of armoured warriors on horseback and in combat, with dense vertical columns of Japanese text beside the images, offering a designer bold figure silhouettes, dramatic diagonal compositions, and the calligraphic energy of brushed kana lettering.

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