[絵本] 〔１５〕関ケ原戦記下

竹内栄久編, 梅堂国政画 · 1884 · 小森宗次郎 · 21 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from 1884, published by Komori Sojiro, with text compiled by Takeuchi Eiku and illustrations by Umedo Kunimasa, depicting the Battle of Sekigahara for a popular readership. Its pictures are dense black-and-white woodcuts of armoured samurai in combat and on horseback, framed by vertical columns of Japanese text, offering a designer strong examples of dynamic action composition and calligraphic 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