国史略 : 絵本訓蒙 巻之１５
A Meiji-era Japanese illustrated book, the fifteenth volume of a picture-primer history (Kokushiryaku ehon kinmō), published in 1874 by Kōkeisha with text translated by Tsutsumi Masakatsu and checked by Shigeno Yasutsugu, aimed at young readers. Its woodblock-style black-and-white pictures show samurai in armour, burning buildings, a plank bridge, a hall with a seated lord, and a rider on horseback, drawn with crisp outlines, sparse hatching and open white space that a designer could borrow for bold graphic simplicity.
