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絵本義経一代記

堤吉兵衛 編 · 1888 · 堤吉兵衛 · 18 pictures

Ehon Yoshitsune Ichidaiki is a Japanese illustrated picture book compiled by Tsutsumi Kichibei and published in 1888 in Japan, aimed at general readers and told through the life of the warrior Minamoto no Yoshitsune. Its woodblock-style pictures show armoured samurai in dynamic poses against stylised water, waves, bare trees and patterned backgrounds, with vertical columns of Japanese text; a designer might take bold black-and-white linework, dense hatching and the framing of action beside calligraphic captions.

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