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[絵本] 〔１０〕 川中島軍記

牧金之助 編, 梅堂国政 画 · 1886 · 牧金之助 · 1 picture

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Maki Kinnosuke and illustrated by Umedo Kunimasa in 1886, published by Maki Kinnosuke, likely for popular readers. The single picture is a black-and-white woodblock print of a violent river scene, with a dark armoured warrior at right and a crowd of struggling figures and churning water below a pale sky. A designer could take its bold black silhouettes, dense hatched water, and dramatic diagonal composition as a model for graphic action scenes.

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