繪本渡邊一代記 3巻 [2]

南杣笑楚満人作, 勝春亭画 · 14 pictures

This is an illustrated Japanese ehon picture book in three volumes, written by Nanso Shōmanjin and illustrated by Katsushun-tei, a woodblock-printed narrative about the warrior Watanabe, likely from the Edo period. The pictures show armoured samurai on horseback with spears and banners, a ghostly figure rising through clouds above a bridge, and courtly figures among pine trees, with columns of text running down the page. A designer might take the flowing cloud motifs, the dense armoured crowds, and the pine-and-rock compositions as models for line-based period illustration.

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