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大西庄之助編 · 1885 · 大西庄之助 · 20 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Ōnishi Shōnosuke and published in 1885, likely for popular readers of samurai and outlaw tales. Its woodblock-style pages pair dynamic fight scenes with columns of vertical Japanese text, and the pictures show swordsmen in striped and checked kimono, struck figures sprawled on the ground, and a woman in a patterned robe. A designer might take from them the bold black-and-white contrast of block-printed ink, the diagonal energy of sword fights, and the framing of image beside vertical text.

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