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絵本明十戦記

湯川範次郎 編 · 1877 · 湯川範次郎 · 38 pictures

An 1877 Japanese woodblock-printed picture book (ehon) compiled by Yukawa Hanjirō and published by him, retelling battle episodes in ink-line woodcut style with columns of hand-set Japanese text beside each scene. The pictures show samurai on horseback with spears, sword fights between swordsmen, and crowded melees with banners, offering a designer bold black linework, dense calligraphic text panels, and dynamic diagonal compositions of action.

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