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牧金之助 編, 梅堂国政 画 · 1888 · 金寿堂 · 9 pictures

An 1888 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) published by Kinjudō, compiled by Maki Kinnosuke and illustrated by Umedō Kunimasa, a life story of the warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu aimed at general readers. Its woodblock-style pages show armoured samurai seated in formal interiors, castle architecture with tiled roofs and wooden galleries, and dense Japanese calligraphic captions set into the margins, offering a designer strong examples of bold black line work, decorative patterned fabrics, and text-and-image page layouts.

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