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綱島亀吉 編 · 1887 · 綱島亀吉 · 1 picture

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock-style picture book, the Ehon Shinsho Taikoki, compiled by Tsunashima Kamekichi and published in 1887, presenting episodes of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's life to a general readership. The single plate shows a mounted samurai swinging a long pole weapon amid fallen and tumbling armoured foot soldiers, drawn in bold black outlines with stippled dark ground and a vertical column of calligraphy at upper right, offering a designer strong graphic contrast between silhouette and white horse and a dynamic diagonal composition.

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