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絵本通俗三国志 3編 巻之2

葛飾戴斗 画 · 岡田茂兵衛 · 12 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, illustrated by Katsushika Taito and published by Okada Mohei, adapting the Chinese Three Kingdoms romance for a popular readership. The pictures are black-and-white line engravings of armoured warriors, courtly interiors, and dramatic confrontations, with dense calligraphic captions in the margins. A designer might take their bold, economical contour lines, stylised hatching for stone and foliage, and the dynamic tangles of figures in tight compositions.

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