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堤吉兵衛 編 · 1891 · 堤吉兵衛 · 15 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) issued in 1891 by the publisher Tsutsumi Kichibei, illustrating the Taiko-ki account of Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea for a popular readership. The pages pair woodcut scenes of armored warriors, storms and mountain passes with columns of printed text. A designer might take the dynamic diagonal streaks of wind and water, the dense black-and-white hatching, and the framed captioned panels as compositional models.

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