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絵本通俗三国志 2編 巻之2

葛飾戴斗 画 · 岡田茂兵衛 · 8 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock picture book, an ehon, illustrated by Katsushika Taito and published by Okada Mohei in Edo, likely in the early nineteenth century, adapting the Chinese Three Kingdoms romance for popular readers. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock prints with dense hatched ink for rock, foliage, and snow, showing armoured warriors in tense confrontations and interior scenes, offering a designer strong examples of bold outline, patterned texture, and compositional framing from the sliding-screen windows.

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