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An 1883 Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Tsuchiya Nansui and published by Shimizu Kahei in Tokyo, aimed at general readers. Its four woodblock-style pictures range from a traveller on a mountain path and a samurai procession to a courtly interior with a scroll and a group of Western-uniformed officers by a ship, with kanji captions and cartouches set into the images. A designer might take the bold, dense line work, the patterned robes and armour textures, and the mix of old and new Japanese subjects.
