絵本通俗英国史
A Meiji-era Japanese illustrated popular history of England, compiled by Iwamoto Goichi and revised by Inamura Jozan, published in Tokyo in 1887 for a general readership. Its pictures are wood-engraved plates with Japanese captions: one shows a woman in a long embroidered veil beside a seated man in a fur-trimmed coat with a cane, and the other shows a woman in a bustled dress talking with a man in a pale costume beside a draped window. A designer might take their fine hatching, layered textile patterns and Western costume rendered in a Japanese print idiom.
