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辻岡文助 編 · 1881 · 辻岡文助 · 13 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture book published in 1881 by Tsujioka Bunsuke, a woodblock-printed popular illustrated book on the warrior Kusunoki Masashige, likely for general readers. Its pictures are crude black-and-white woodblock scenes of battle, fortress walls and armoured warriors, with dense Japanese text columns; a designer might draw on the hexagonal stone wall pattern, the billowing smoke clouds, and the stylised armour and rope-like dynamic lines.

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