Inside Out Library · Explore

絵本呉越軍談 3編 7

池田東籬 著, 柳川重信 画 · 1882 · 井上治兵衛 · 3 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese illustrated book (ehon) of 1882, written by Ikeda Tōri and illustrated by Yanagawa Shigenobu, published by Inoue Jihei, drawn as woodblock-printed black line pages for a general reading public. The three pages show a palace garden with figures crouched on a veranda, an interior audience of seated court figures, and a fortified gate with a lone warrior on a rocky cliff above a waterfall. For a designer, the pages offer dense, hatched ink line work, with strong diagonal compositions and framed panels that suit editorial or period-style graphics.

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