絵本甲越軍記
A 1927 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) published by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha and written by Matsuyama Shisui, presenting a military chronicle of the Kai and Echigo armies for a general popular readership. Its pictures are bold black-and-white woodcut-style prints of samurai on horseback with spears, armour and churning water, and a designer might take their strong silhouettes, hatched shading and dynamic diagonal compositions as models for graphic line work.
