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絵本通俗三国志 3編 巻之5

葛飾戴斗 画 · 岡田茂兵衛 · 10 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, the third part of a popular illustrated version of the Three Kingdoms romance, illustrated by Katsushika Taito and published by Okada Mohei for a general reading public. Its pictures are black-and-white line blocks with dense hatching, crisp contour lines, and open white ground, showing a designer how to handle crowded battle scenes, rocky landscapes, and interior settings with framed screens and tiled floors.

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