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[絵本] 〔８〕 朝鮮攻伐 ２号

永島福太郎 編, 孟斎芳虎 画 · 1880 · 堤吉兵衛 · 17 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) published in 1880 by Tsutsumi Kichibei, with pictures by Hōsai Yoshitora and text compiled by Nagashima Fukutarō, telling the Korean campaign of the sixteenth century. The woodblock pages mix dense vertical Japanese text with bold black-and-white armoured warriors, horses and fighting. A designer might take from them the strong ink-line contrast, the crowded text-and-image layouts, and the dynamic diagonal compositions of armoured combat.

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