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[絵本] 〔14〕 平清盛一代記 下

永島辰五郎 編 · 1882 · 小森宗次郎 · 18 pictures

A late Meiji ehon picture book, the second volume of a life of Taira no Kiyomori, compiled by Nagashima Tatsugorō and published in 1882 by Komori Sōjirō in Japan for general readers. Its woodblock-style pages show seated courtly and warrior figures in patterned robes, framed by dense columns of Japanese text, offering a designer a dense model for combining figurative images with vertical type and decorative textile patterns.

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