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橋本直義編 · 1880 · 小森宗次郎 · 21 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) compiled by Hashimoto Naoyoshi and published by Komori Sōjirō in 1880, illustrated for a popular readership with scenes from the life of the warlord Katō Kiyomasa. The pictures are black-and-white line woodcuts with annotated captions in columns beside the figures, showing samurai in armour, tents, a sweeping sea-and-mountain landscape with Mount Fuji, and interior architecture with sliding screens. A designer might take the clean, bold contour line, the dense vertical text panels, and the simple flat staging of figures against open ground.

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