繪本先代萩 : 竹田芝居
A Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) published in 1832 by Gyokkōken, illustrating scenes from the Takeda theatre drama Sendai Hagi, probably for a popular audience of theatre-goers. The pages are dense with small figures in multi-level interiors, scattered with handwritten speech captions, and drawn in plain black-green line with little shading. A designer could take from them the layered, stage-like compositions and the energetic, staggered poses of figures arranged across tiered floors and courtyards.
