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絵本通俗三国志 6編 巻之10

葛飾戴斗 画 · 岡田茂兵衛 · 7 pictures

This Edo-period Japanese woodblock picture book, the sixth installment of an illustrated popular version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, was illustrated by Katsushika Taito and published by Okada Mohei for general readers. Its pages show mounted warriors in cloud-filled landscapes, a hermitage among pines and rocks, and interior scenes of seated figures beside screens; a designer could take from them the dynamic diagonal composition of galloping horsemen against bold black masses and the stippled, cloud-lined ink-line technique.

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