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絵本通俗水滸伝 巻3

桃川燕林 講演, 今村次郎 速記 · 1898 · 三新堂 · 7 pictures

An 1898 Japanese illustrated book, the third volume of a popular picture-book retelling of the Water Margin (Suikoden) bandit epic, published in Tokyo by Sanshindō and based on a storyteller's oral performance taken down by a stenographer. Its black-and-white woodblock-style pictures show dramatic martial scenes with heroic warriors, sea and river chaos, and sweeping action, offering a designer bold figure silhouettes, dense hatched line work, and dynamic compositions of violent motion.

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