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絵本慶安太平記

中村浅吉 編 · 1887 · 中村浅吉 · 12 pictures

An 1887 Japanese woodblock-style picture book (ehon) compiled by Nakamura Asakichi and published by him, illustrating the Keian Taiheiki tale of Edo-period samurai intrigue. The four pages show a bold-patterned samurai in a checked kimono, a figure in a striped hakama holding a sword beside a wall, a woman seated before a lattice window, and a armored warrior with a lady in an interior. Their dense black linework, hatched textures and patterned textiles offer designers strong figure-and-pattern compositions and vertical text panels.

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