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橋本直義編 · 1880 · 小森宗次郎 · 20 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1880 by Komori Sōjirō, compiled by Hashimoto Naoyoshi, recounting the life of the warrior Katō Kiyomasa for a popular readership. Its woodblock-printed pages show armoured samurai on horseback and on foot in dynamic battle scenes, with bold black outlines, dense patterned armour, and vertical columns of text, offering a designer strong examples of graphic framing, pattern 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