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絵本太閤記 上巻

樺井達之輔 編 · 1886 · 風祥堂 · 11 pictures

Ehon Taikoki volume one is a Japanese woodblock-printed picture book of 1886, compiled by Kabai Tatsunosuke and published by Fushōdō, retelling the life of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi for a general readership. The pictures are bold black-line woodcut portraits of samurai in patterned armour, each framed with printed name cartouches in vertical columns, offering a designer strong graphic patterning in armour textures, bold line, and compact figure groupings.

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