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[絵本] 〔２２〕 牛若丸一代記

牧金之助 編, 梅堂国政 画 · 1886 · 牧金之助 · 6 pictures

This Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) on the youth of the warrior Ushiwakamaru, later Minamoto no Yoshitsune, was compiled by Maki Kinnosuke and illustrated by Umedō Kunimasa, published in Tokyo in 1886 for a general readership. Its woodblock-style pages show armoured samurai in battle and on the road, with a fan-and-robe figure and a moonlit bridge scene, each framed by panels of Japanese text. A designer might take the compact, dense composition of figures, armour patterns and vertical kana columns as a model for narrative layout.

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