[絵本] 〔１８〕太閤記山崎合戦上

沢久次郎編 · 1887 · 沢久次郎 · 18 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Sawa Kyujiro and published in 1887, presumably for a popular readership, retelling the Battle of Yamazaki from the Taiko-ki chronicle of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The pages are woodblock prints with heavy Japanese text columns set around armoured warriors, many shown in dynamic poses on horseback or mid-combat. A designer might take the bold, high-contrast linework of the armour patterns, the energetic angled poses, and the dense vertical calligraphy framing the figures as a model for compositional texture.

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