絵本甲越軍記
This is a Japanese illustrated history book (ehon) published in 1891 by Machida Sōshichi, retelling warfare from the Sengoku period of the Kai and Echigo lords for a general readership. The woodblock-style prints show armoured warriors on snowy mountain paths, a traveller with a carrying pole before a town, and a samurai pulling a comrade over the snow, with bold outlines and dense Japanese captions set in margins, which a designer could draw on for compositional layouts of text beside action scenes.
