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絵本太功記 2編

岳亭定岡 編 · 1886 · 山本常次郎 · 34 pictures

This is a Meiji-era (1886) Japanese woodblock-printed picture book, the second volume of an ehon edition of the Ehon Taikōki, compiled by Gattei Sadaoka and published by Yamamoto Tsunejirō for general readers of popular illustrated fiction. Its pictures show armoured samurai in dramatic poses, set against bold patterned screens, snowy scenes and vertical columns of Japanese text, offering a designer strong examples of inked line, dense patterning and framed panel 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