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[絵本] 〔１５〕 天下茶屋孝士の仇討 下

永島福太郎 編, 孟斎芳虎 画 · 1880 · 堤吉兵衛 · 9 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) published in 1880 by Tsutsumi Kichibei, with illustrations by Hōsai Yoshitora and text compiled by Nagashima Fukutarō, presenting a samurai revenge story. The pictures show swordsmen in patterned kimono and hakama in dynamic confrontations, framed by dense columns of Japanese text, offering a designer strong examples of bold ink-line figure drawing, patterned textile motifs and vertical text layout.

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