[絵本] 〔１〕宮本武勇伝

児玉又七編 · 1891 · 児玉又七 · 26 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Kodama Matashichi and published in 1891, presenting episodes from the legend of the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi for a general popular readership. The pictures are woodblock-style line drawings with kana text columns; one shows a tense crouched figure with a sword amid grass, another a man in a robe carrying a long blade and sword-wielding figures, which a designer might use for dynamic action poses and calligraphic text-image layouts.

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