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[絵本] 〔１〕 徳川軍記

村井静馬 編 · 1876 · 小森宗次郎 · 6 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Murai Seiba and published in 1876 by Komori Sōjirō, illustrating the Tokugawa military chronicle for a popular readership. The four pages shown are crude woodblock prints of armoured samurai in dynamic poses, with handwritten-style Japanese captions set in the upper margins. A designer might take the bold black-and-white hatching on armour, the sweeping diagonal figure poses, and the framing of text panels above the scenes as a direct, graphic vernacular style.

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