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絵本難波戦記

内藤彦一 編 · 1886 · 内藤彦一 · 8 pictures

An 1886 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) published by Naito Hikoichi, retelling the Siege of Osaka war tales, aimed at a general reading public. Its woodblock-style prints show seated courtly figures in formal robes with dense columns of vertical Japanese text beside them, offering a designer ideas for framing figures within text-heavy panels, decorative kimono patterns of hexagons and flowers, and the calligraphic energy of brush-style titles.

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