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増田福太郎 著 · 1888 · 増田福太郎 · 13 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) by Masuda Fukutaro, published in 1888, illustrating the life of the warrior Taira no Masakado for readers in Japan. The pictures are black-and-white woodcut prints with calligraphic text panels inset among the images, showing mounted samurai in armour, seated court figures in robes, and a bearded warrior in a patterned hakama. A designer might draw on the bold, heavy ink outlines, the patterned textile and armour motifs, and the way vertical text columns sit beside the figures.

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