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芳年武者无類 木下藤吉郎（収載資料名：[武者无類外ニ三枚続キ画帖]）

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A woodblock print from Yoshitoshi's series of warriors, made in Japan in the later nineteenth century, a sheet of an album for the Japanese picture-book market. The print shows a samurai in dark lacquered armour standing thigh-deep in rippling blue water, lifting a spear-like pole overhead toward a sprig of feathers, with a bundle of reeds and a wooden structure at the right edge. A designer might take the flat blue water bands, the strong dark armour pattern against pale blue, and the vertical composition with a cartouche of calligraphy at top right.

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