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絵本通俗三国志 8編 巻之4

葛飾戴斗 画 · 岡田茂兵衛 · 11 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) of the Edo period, illustrated by Katsushika Taito and published by Okada Mohei, retelling the Chinese Romance of the Three Kingdoms for a popular readership. The pictures show dynamic battle scenes in bold black line with dense hatching, strong diagonal compositions, and crowded figures in armour, useful to a designer seeking energetic Japanese ink-line action imagery.

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