Illustrated Journal of Japanese History no. 1-10 (Nihon Rekishi Gaho) : [volume 2]
This is a Meiji-era Japanese historical journal issued in Tokyo in 1892 by the publisher Ōkura Yasugorō, with illustrations by Matsumoto Fūko for a general readership interested in national history. The pictures are fine woodblock-style line drawings with soft flat colour washes in peach, grey and ochre, showing seated figures in robes, armoured warriors and a courtly lady in layered dress within plain interiors. A designer might take their economical outline, restrained palette and clean spatial framing, with open paper areas doing much of the work.
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