時代世話新狂言影芝居
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book of 1894 published by Katō Fukujirō, compiled by him, collecting woodblock-style illustrations of samurai and courtly scenes from popular theatre plays. The pictures show armoured warriors with bows and quivers, a richly robed courtier with an attendant, and a printed playbill with cast names in columns, so a designer might borrow the dense black-and-white linework, patterned kimono textures, and the vertical Japanese typography of the cast list.
