絵本徳川十五代記
A Japanese woodblock-style picture book from 1886, published by Takamine Torajirō, illustrating the lives of the fifteen Tokugawa shoguns for a general readership. Its pages show samurai in armour and formal robes with bold black line work, dense patterned textiles, and boxed captions in vertical Japanese script that a designer could borrow for pattern, layout and period costume.
