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山本常次郎 編 · 1889 · 隆港堂 · 11 pictures

An 1889 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) compiled by Yamamoto Tsunejirō and published by Ryūkōdō, drawn in the woodblock-era style for a general readership of Meiji Japan. Its black-and-white pictures show dramatic scenes of sorcery, swordplay and courtly intrigue, with bold figures set against dense hatched backgrounds and columns of vertical Japanese text, offering a designer strong models for inked figure compositions and calligraphic framing.

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