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絵本通俗三国志 2編1

湖南文山 訳, 中村頼治 増補 · 1883 · 東京同益出版社 · 12 pictures

An 1883 Japanese picture book (ehon) published in Tokyo by Tōeki Shuppansha, a popular illustrated retelling of the Three Kingdoms romance, translated by Konan Bunzan and expanded by Nakamura Yoriharu. The woodblock-style pages show dramatic battle and court scenes in bold black line with dense patterned costumes, offering a designer strong examples of ink-outline figure drawing, decorative textile pattern, and framed vertical panels with Japanese calligraphic captions.

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