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堤吉兵衛 編 · 1891 · 堤吉兵衛 · 11 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) of 1891, compiled by Tsutsumi Kichibei and published by him, presenting the life of the loyalist warrior Kusunoki Masashige in woodblock-style pen illustrations with columns of Japanese text. The four pictures show armoured samurai, a seated figure reading a scroll, and a courtier on a bridge, with the text beside them offering a designer strong examples of line-based pattern, armour detail and dense text-and-image layout.

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