[絵本] 〔９〕英雄銘々伝

増田福太郎著 · 1888 · 増田福太郎 · 17 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) titled 英雄銘々伝, written and published by Masuda Fukutarō in 1888, for a general readership of popular illustrated fiction. The four pictures are woodblock-style black-and-white prints of samurai warriors in action with columns of calligraphic text beside them, and a designer could take from them their bold silhouettes, dynamic diagonal poses, and the dense interplay of dark ink masses with ruled and handwritten lettering.

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