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中村浅吉 編 · 1887 · 中村浅吉 · 21 pictures

An 1887 Japanese ehon picture book, Ehon Iwami Buyūden, compiled and published by Nakamura Asakichi, with woodblock-style prints telling a heroic tale in text-and-image panels. The pictures show a samurai hero in patterned kimono, mostly in dynamic poses with swords and wooden beams, drawn in bold black outlines with dense wave and scale patterns that a designer could adapt for surface textures and motif borders.

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