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絵本難波戦記稚話 3編

伴源平 編 · 1886 · 赤志忠雅堂 · 8 pictures

This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Ban Genpei and published in 1886 by Akashi Chūgadō, a children's edition retelling the Osaka campaign history of the Sengoku period. The pages are printed woodblock-style images of samurai in armour seated and standing in tense conversation, framed by vertical columns of text and bold kanji captions. A designer might take from them the strong black-and-white woodcut contrast, the dense text-and-image layouts, and the stylised angular armour and hairstyles.

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