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大西庄之助 編 · 1885 · 大西庄之助 · 20 pictures

This is a Japanese ehon picture book, volume 2 of the Tenpo Suikoden series, compiled by Oni Shonosuke and published in 1885 for a popular readership. Its woodblock prints show armed men in dense bamboo thickets and close sword fights, with columns of kana text framing each scene, offering a designer strong black-and-white patterning, hatched foliage, and dynamic figure poses.

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