[絵本] 〔１１〕宮本武蔵一代記上

永島福太郎編, 孟斎芳虎画 · 1880 · 堤吉兵衛 · 16 pictures

An 1880 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) titled Miyamoto Musashi Ichidai-ki, volume 1, published by Tsukui Kichibei and illustrated by Hōsai Yoshitora, with text compiled by Nagashima Fukutarō, aimed at popular readers of the Meiji period. Its woodblock-style pages pair dense vertical columns of Japanese text with bold scenes of swordsmen in fight, showing strong black outlines, patterned kimono and cloud-shaped text cartouches a designer could borrow for graphic bold narrative layouts.

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