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牧金之助 編, 梅堂国政 画 · 1886 · 牧金之助 · 4 pictures

An 1886 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) volume seven, compiled by Maki Kinnosuke and illustrated by Umedo Kunimasa, published by Maki Kinnosuke for a general readership of popular fiction. Its woodblock-style pages show heroic and supernatural figures with dense columns of vertical Japanese text, and a designer might take their bold black-and-white hatching, patterned robes and sweeping crashing-wave backgrounds as a graphic vocabulary for dramatic, high-contrast compositions.

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