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征清戦争画譜

井上勝五郎 画 · 1894 · 薫志堂 · 11 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese illustrated album of the First Sino-Japanese War, drawn by Inoue Katsugorō and published in 1894 by Kunshidō as a picture record of the war for a popular readership. The pictures are woodblock-style prints of the battles, with dense hatched smoke, churning water, and crowded troop formations, showing how a designer can use fine parallel line work to render weather, crowds, and 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