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沢久次郎 編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 20 pictures

An 1887 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) in the Kanadehon Chūshingura series, compiled and published by Sawa Kyūjirō in Japan for a general readership. Its woodblock-style pictures show samurai and warriors in dynamic poses with dense columns of Japanese text, offering a designer examples of vigorous figure composition, bold black-and-white patterning, and integration of calligraphic text with image.

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