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森本順三郎 著 · 1888 · 森本順三郎 · 3 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) by Morimoto Junzaburo, published in 1888 in Japan, telling the life story of the samurai general Kato Kiyomasa in woodblock-style prints. The three pictures show an armoured warrior under pine boughs, a warrior striking with a spear amid a crowd, and a tiger hunt in a bamboo and pine landscape, offering a designer strong bold black-and-white line work, dense hatching and dramatic 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