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絵本石山軍記

1888 · 中川勘助 · 32 pictures

A Japanese woodblock-style picture book (ehon) published in 1888 by Nakagawa Kansuke, drawing on the Ishiyama war chronicle and its samurai battles. The pictures are bold black-and-white line prints with dense armour patterning, flat interior settings and calligraphic captions in cartouches, offering a designer strong graphic contrast, pattern and figure composition to borrow from.

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