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国史略 : 絵本訓蒙 巻之14

堤正勝 訳, 重野安繹 校 · 1874 · 光啓社 · 6 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese illustrated history primer, the Kokushiryaku ehon kunmō, published in Tokyo in 1874 by Kōkeisha, translated by Tsutsumi Masakatsu and edited by Shigeno Yasutsugu, for readers learning national history. Its woodblock-printed battle scenes use dense hatched smoke, layered clouds, and tangled spears and armoured warriors, which a designer could borrow for dynamic compositions, ink texture, and framed panel layouts with calligraphic captions.

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