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[絵本] 〔１２〕 賤ケ岳大合戦

堤吉兵衛 編 · 1889 · 堤吉兵衛 · 12 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon), volume 12, published in 1889 by Tsutsumi Kichibei, depicting the Battle of Shizugatake. The four woodblock-style pages show armoured samurai on horseback and on foot in combat, with handwritten-style Japanese captions in the margins. A designer might take from them the dynamic poses, dense hatched armour patterns, and bold black-and-white line work of late-nineteenth-century Japanese print illustration.

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