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清水市次郎 和解 · 1884 · 清水市次郎 · 17 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese illustrated book, the Ehon Tsūzoku Sangokushi volume 1, published in 1884 by Shimizu Ichijirō, retelling the Chinese Three Kingdoms romance in woodblock-style line prints for general readers. The pictures are bold black-and-white ink scenes of armoured warriors in combat, with dynamic diagonals, radiating burst lines, and dense hatched shadows that a designer could draw on for action composition and graphic line work.

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