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牧金之助 著 · 1890 · 金寿堂 · 10 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock-style picture book (ehon) published in 1890 by Kinjudō, written by Maki Kinnosuke, telling the life of the monk Nichiren for general readers. The pictures are bold black-and-white line illustrations with dense, swirling water, rain and wind, and a designer might borrow their strong contrast, hatched texture and dramatic crowd-and-weather compositions, plus the vertical columns of calligraphic captions framing each scene.

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