絵本楠公記 10巻 [2]

山田得翁斎作, 速水春暁斎画 · 1800 · 田中吉兵衛[ほか6名] · 49 pictures

This is a Japanese ehon picture book in ten volumes, published in 1800 in Edo by Tanaka Kichibei and six other booksellers, with text by Yamada Tokuōsai and illustrations by Hayami Shungyōsai, telling the story of the warrior Kusunoki Masashige. Its pictures are monochrome woodblock prints of mountain landscapes, pine trees, and armoured warriors on horseback set in cloud-filled scenes, with hatched ink lines and open paper ground that a designer could draw on for compositions of layered terrain and dramatic cloud borders.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

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