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荒川吉五郎編 · 1882 · 荒川吉五郎 · 17 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1882 by Arakawa Kichigorō, chronicling the life of the warrior Katō Kiyomasa in woodblock prints with kana and kanji captions. The pages show armoured samurai in action, aimed at a general reading public and suited to designers studying Japanese woodcut narrative layout. Designers can draw on the bold black outlines, dense patterned armour and hatching, and the way vertical text columns sit beside full-page scenes.

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