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堤吉兵衛 編 · 1888 · 堤吉兵衛 · 2 pictures

An 1888 Japanese ehon picture book titled Taikōki, compiled by Tsutsumi Kichibei and published by him in Japan, aimed at general readers and built around scenes from the life of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The two pictures are bold black-and-white woodblock-style prints with dense Japanese calligraphy in vertical columns, showing armoured samurai in tense moments; a designer could draw on their strong black silhouettes, graphic inked contrast, and integration of text and image.

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