Taiko

The book

The same wars, from the ground.

Why Hiroshi Hirata

The gekiga counterweight to the Hasui edition. Where that one gives you the castle from across a valley in rain, this one gives you the men under the wall.

What to look for

Crowds of individuals. Hirata draws a rank of soldiers as a rank of different faces, which is a slow way to work and the reason his battle pages read the way they do.

Plates

Nakamura VillageThe Hachisuka MarshThe Kitchen FiresInabayama Above the RiverLord of NagahamaThe Great DikePeace at TakamatsuThe Council at KiyosuDawn at ShizugatakeThe Peace with IeyasuThe Submission of the ShimazuFushimi Castle