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竹内栄久編, 梅堂国政画 · 1884 · 小森宗次郎 · 18 pictures

This is a Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) of 1884, published by Komori Sōjirō, with text compiled by Takeuchi Eiku and pictures by Umedō Kunimasa, telling the later life of the rebel Yui Shōsetsu for a popular readership. The pictures are crude woodblock prints with dense columns of Japanese text beside the figures, showing samurai in dramatic poses with swords, a bound prisoner, and a warrior in a palace-like interior. A designer might take their bold black outlines, patterned kimono textures, and tightly packed text-and-image layout as a model for graphic composition.

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