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児玉又七 編 · 1880 · 大橋堂 · 13 pictures

An 1880 Japanese ehon picture book, the first volume of the Miyamoto Musashi legend, compiled by Kodama Matashichi and published by Ōhashidō. Its woodblock-style pages pair dense columns of vertical text with full-page scenes of swordsmen and figures in motion. A designer might take its bold, high-contrast ink line, strong figure silhouettes, and the way text blocks frame the action.

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