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沢久次郎編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 18 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Sawa Hisajiro and published in 1887 in Japan for a general reading audience. Its pages show woodblock-style prints of armed men in striped hakama and wide sleeves, with columns of vertical Japanese text running alongside. A designer could take from them the bold hatching of striped cloth, the dynamic diagonal poses of swordsmen, and the tight interplay of dense text blocks and 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