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絵本通俗三国志 6編 巻之3

葛飾戴斗 画 · 岡田茂兵衛 · 9 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, illustrated by Katsushika Taito for the publisher Okada Mohei, retelling the Chinese Three Kingdoms romance for a popular readership. The pages show ink-line scenes of landscape with figures, a robed official at a doorway, a warrior in a room confronting a ghostly long-haired figure, and three seated men on a veranda; a designer might take the dense hatching, bold silhouettes, and compact framing of figures within architecture and rock.

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