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牧金之助 編 · 1885 · 牧金之助 · 10 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Maki Kinnosuke in 1885, issued by its own publisher, telling the life story of the warrior Tametomo for a popular readership. The pages are woodblock-printed, showing dramatic scenes with kana captions set in narrow text columns. A designer could take the bold black-and-white ink compositions, the dense patterned kimono and wave backgrounds, and the way action is framed in panels beside vertical text.

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