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岡田玉山 著 · 1884 · 楽成舎 · 122 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture book, printed in 1884 by Rakuseisha and written and illustrated by Okada Gyokuzan, retelling the life of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi for a general readership. The black-and-white woodblock-style pages show samurai in armour, fortifications, and battle scenes set in stylised landscapes, with dense hatching and pine trees a designer could adapt for bold monochrome 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