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武笠三 校 · 1926 · 有朋堂書店 · 75 pictures

This is a 1926 Japanese illustrated edition of the Journey to the West, published by Yūhōdō Shoten and edited by Takesa San, aimed at general readers of the ehon picture-book tradition. The woodblock-style black-and-white prints show crowded interiors, monks in conversation, and dramatic battle scenes with flailing figures and billowing cloth, offering a designer strong examples of dynamic composition, dense figure grouping, and calligraphic caption panels set beside the images.

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