通俗近世史略 : 絵本
A Meiji-era Japanese illustrated history, 通俗近世史略 (Tsūzoku kinsei shiryaku), written by Yamaguchi Ken and annotated by Aoki Hosei (Tōkō), published in 1888 by Dōmei Bunsha for a general readership. The pictures are small black-and-white portraits and crowded battle or surrender scenes, drawn in a mix of lithographic shading and pen hatching; a designer might take from them the period's blend of Western-style portrait tonality with traditional Japanese composition, and the dense diagonal hatching of the battle scene as a strong texture.
