Illustrated Journal of Japanese History no. 1-10 (Nihon Rekishi Gaho) : [volume 5]
This is a Meiji-era Japanese illustrated history journal, volume 5 of an issue run of ten, compiled by Matsumoto Fūko and published in Tokyo in 1892 by Ōkura Yasugorō and Ōkura Shoten for a general readership. Its pages pair dense columns of vertical Japanese text with ink-and-wash line drawings of landscapes, figures, and carved objects, some lightly tinted in green and tan. A designer could take its spare, economical line work, generous margins, and muted mineral colour palette as a model for editorial layouts.
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