[絵本] 〔１４〕太閤記難波戦記下

沢久次郎編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 16 pictures

A late nineteenth-century Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1887 by Sawa Kyujiro, compiled from the Taikoki and Naniwa senki chronicles of warfare and heroes for a popular readership. The four pictures are woodblock-style prints of armoured samurai on horseback and on foot, with handwritten-looking vertical Japanese captions and calligraphic inscriptions beside the figures. A designer could draw on their bold black-and-white linework, dense patterned armour textures, and the dynamic diagonal composition of galloping horses and raised spears.

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