[絵本] 〔４〕赤穂義士銘々伝

大西庄之助編 · 1885 · 松延堂 · 20 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Ōnishi Shōnosuke and published by Shōendō in 1885, presenting individual biographies of the Akō loyal retainers. Its pictures are woodblock-style standing and seated portraits of samurai in dark kimono and hakama, each captioned with a name, rank, and stipend in vertical columns of kana and kanji. A designer might take the strong black silhouettes, patterned hakama textures, and the framing of text blocks beside full-length figures.

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