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[絵本] 〔１〕 頼光大江山鬼退治

綱島亀吉 編 · 1887 · 綱島亀吉 · 10 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled and published by Tsunashima Kamekichi in 1887, presumably for a general popular readership. Its pages are bold black-and-white woodblock-style prints of warriors in armour and dark-robed figures in dynamic struggle, with brush-written calligraphic text in columns beside the figures. A designer could take the heavy black masses, stark silhouettes, and energetic diagonal poses as a model for high-contrast graphic composition.

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