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中村浅吉 編 · 1889 · 中村浅吉 · 13 pictures

This is an 1889 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) volume two of the Shinsho Taikoki, a fictionalised life of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi, compiled and published by Nakamura Asakichi in Japan for a general popular readership. Its woodblock-style pictures show armoured samurai, banners, horses and castle walls in dense, text-heavy pages, with bold outlines, hatched patterns and tight compositions a designer could borrow for graphic motifs.

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