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[絵本] 〔１１〕 宮本無三四一代記

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

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Maki Kinnosuke and illustrated by Umedō Kunimasa in 1886, published by Maki Kinnosuke, telling the life story of the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi for a general popular readership. The four woodblock-style pages show a sorcerer-like figure in a smoking hut with a cauldron and a boatman's struggle on a stormy sea, with a great whale rising from the waves. A designer might take the dense, hand-cut hatching and swirling smoke and wave patterns, and the bold calligraphic cartouches with vertical Japanese text as graphic devices.

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