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通俗絵本三国志 第7編

1893 · 有則軒 · 8 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock-style picture book (ehon) from 1893, published by Yūsokuken, adapting the Romance of the Three Kingdoms for a popular readership. Its pictures are bold black-and-white line engravings of armoured warriors in battle, framed by decorative borders and carrying small Chinese character captions beside each figure. A designer might take the dynamic diagonal compositions, dense hatched ink textures, and ornamented frame borders as models for bold graphic illustration.

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