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絵本豊臣勲功記 第8編 巻之10

桜沢堂山 編, 松川半山 画 · 1884 · 群玉堂[ほか] · 3 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture book, compiled by Sakurazawa Dozan and illustrated by Matsukawa Hanzan, published in 1884 by Gyokudōdō, presenting episodes from the Toyotomi military chronicles for a popular readership. Its black-and-white woodblock pictures show armoured warriors in battle, a rider on horseback, and churning river rapids with a rope, with vertical columns of calligraphic captions; a designer might borrow their dynamic line work for flowing water, smoke, and crowded action compositions.

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