絵本孝子伝
An 1889 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) compiled by Kikusu Nakura and published by him, consisting of woodblock-style prints of filial-piety stories for a general readership. The pictures are small, black-and-white, and crowded with figures in interiors, with fine hatched lines for textiles, shoji screens, and tatami. A designer might take from them the economical hatching and flat patterned kimono surfaces, plus the layered screens and floor planes that organise each scene.
