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沢久次郎 編 · 1894 · 沢久次郎 · 6 pictures

An 1894 Japanese ehon picture book, volume 1, titled Miyamoto Buyūden and compiled and published by Sawa Kyūjirō, presenting episodes from the legend of the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi for a general readership. The woodblock-style illustrations show a fighter in striped robes with a sword, a seated samurai in a room, armoured warriors on a riverbank, and a fallen figure in patterned robes under a windblown sky, all framed by dense columns of vertical Japanese text that a designer could borrow for layout, panel framing, and the energy of action poses.

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