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牧金之助 編, 梅堂国政 画 · 1884 · 金寿堂 · 5 pictures

An 1884 Japanese ehon picture book, volume 2 of Kawanakajima Gunki, compiled by Maki Kinnosuke and illustrated by Umedo Kunimasa, published by Kinjudo in Tokyo for a popular readership of Japanese war tales. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style prints of armoured samurai in dramatic poses, with bold outlines, dense hatching for water and smoke, and inset captions naming each warrior, offering a designer strong graphic contrast and patterned textures.

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