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A Picture Book of Japanese Warriors (Ehon Musashi Abumi 絵本武蔵鐙)

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 · 1836 · Edo : Suzuki Chūzō 鈴木忠蔵 · 23 pictures

A Picture Book of Japanese Warriors is a Japanese woodblock illustrated book by Katsushika Hokusai, published in Edo in 1836 by Suzuki Chūzō for a general readership interested in warriors. Its pages show armored samurai in dynamic action, with ink-line figures, rows of lamellar armor, and occasional spectral beasts set against blank or clouded grounds.

Portraits · Armor · Weapons

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