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沢久次郎 編 · 1894 · 沢久次郎 · 3 pictures

An 1894 Japanese ehon picture book titled Taikoki, compiled by Sawa Kyujiro and published by Sawa Kyujiro, aimed at general readers and rendering the life of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi in illustrated woodblock-style pages. The three plates show a crowded interior scene of seated samurai in patterned robes, a courtly banquet on a raised veranda with a cook presenting food, and a fleet of sails and banners at sea beneath a wooded headland, with vertical kanji captions. A designer could draw on the bold black-and-white patterning of kimono and sails, the flat tiered perspective, and the dense vertical text columns for layout ideas.

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