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堤吉兵衛 編 · 1891 · 堤吉兵衛 · 5 pictures

An 1891 Japanese ehon picture book, volume one of the Taikoki (a popular biography of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi), compiled and published by Tsutsumi Kichibei in Japan for a general readership. Its woodblock-style pages show armoured samurai in tense confrontations, crowded interiors with sliding paper screens, and night scenes with swirling clouds and calligraphic captions, offering designers strong black-and-white figure compositions, dramatic pattern, and integrated text panels.

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