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絵本通俗三国志 6編 巻之7

葛飾戴斗 画 · 岡田茂兵衛 · 10 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 pages show mountain passes, a palace balcony with tiled roofs, and horsemen in armour fighting with spears, drawn in bold black line with white ground. A designer might take the dense crosshatched cloud and rock patterns, the strong figure silhouettes, and the stacked tile roofs as graphic motifs.

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