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芳年武者无類 日本武尊・川上梟師（収載資料名：[武者无類外ニ三枚続キ画帖]）

大蘇芳年 · 1883 · 小林鉄次郎 · 1 picture

A Japanese woodblock print from 1883 by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, published by Kobayashi Tetsujiro, drawn for a collected album of warrior pictures (ehon) for a general readership. The print shows a dramatic, fast-moving confrontation: a figure in a dark blue patterned robe with red lining and a long dark hair pulls back, while a pale, ghostly swordsman in white billowing cloth lunges above, with a red-and-white ground and a clay vessel at lower right. A designer could take the bold diagonal composition, strong red and indigo color blocks, and the flowing motion of the cloth.

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