Illustrated Journal of Japanese History no. 1-10 (Nihon Rekishi Gaho) : [volume 1]

Matsumoto, Fūko, 1840-1923 · 1892 · Tokyo : Ōkura Yasugorō 大倉保五郎 : Ōkura Shoten 大倉書店 · 5 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese illustrated history journal, the first volume of a ten-part series, compiled by Matsumoto Fūko and published in Tokyo in 1892 by Ōkura Shoten for general readers of national history. Its pages pair dense columns of printed Japanese text with restrained ink line drawings of court and warrior scenes, a misty landscape, a single bird and a calligraphic colophon, offering a designer quiet, spare compositions with generous white space, careful figure outlines and red seal stamps as accents.

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