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絵本太閤記 3編 巻1

岡田玉山 著・画 · 1879 · 大野市兵衛等 · 11 pictures

This is a Meiji-era printed woodblock-style picture book from 1879, the third installment of an illustrated biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, drawn and written by Okada Gyokuzan and published by Ōno Ichibei and partners for popular readers in Japan. The pages show fortified castle architecture, crowded battle and crowd scenes, and rocky mountain pathways with warriors, drawn in dense, controlled black-and-white line work that a designer could borrow for hatching, roof silhouettes, and crowd composition.

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