絵本金花談 巻之7
This is a Japanese illustrated fiction volume, volume 7 of the Ehon Kinka-dan, illustrated by Hayami Shungyosai and published by Maekawa Genshichirō, probably in Edo in the early nineteenth century. The woodblock prints show samurai in tense indoor confrontations on wooden verandas beside painted screens, with scattered figures tumbling and fighting across the floor. A designer could take from them the strong black-line contours, dynamic diagonal compositions of falling bodies, and the patterned kimono textures.
