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芳年武者无類 平相国清盛（収載資料名：[武者无類外ニ三枚続キ画帖]）

芳年 · 小林鉄次郎 · 1 picture

This Meiji-era Japanese woodblock print from the ehon series Yoshitoshi's warrior picture book, made by the artist Yoshitoshi and published by Kobayashi Tetsujirō, shows the warlord Taira no Kiyomori in a historical scene. The image has a bold red-and-black palette, with a bald monk-like figure in a dark robe holding a white fan against a dawn sun over water, and a woman in red kneeling on a red railing at the lower right. A designer could take its flat color blocks, strong diagonal composition, and the vivid sunrise gradient.

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