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日清大戦争記 : 絵本

服部喜太郎 編 · 1895 · 求光閣 · 38 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Hattori Kitarō and published in 1895 by Kyūkōkaku, recounting the Sino-Japanese War for a general popular readership. Its pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style battle scenes with dense cloud banks, cavalry charges, close melee and a ship at sea, offering a designer strong examples of dynamic, diagonal composition and graphic ink-and-cloud patterning.

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