絵本太閤記大全 7巻 [2]

西村屋与八 · 18 pictures

This Japanese ehon picture book, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi, retells the life of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi in woodblock prints with blue and orange washes and printed captions. The pictures show armoured samurai in close combat, mounted riders, and interior scenes of seated figures, with dense ink outlines and cloud-shaped panel borders. A designer could draw on the bold contour line, the flat colour washes over black key lines, and the layered, crowded compositions that fill each panel.

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