絵本呉越軍談 ３編 ２
A Meiji-era (1882) Japanese picture book, an ehon, by the writer Ikeda Tōri and illustrator Yanagawa Shigenobu, published by Inoue Jihei, drawn in black-and-white woodblock line for a general reading public. The pictures show dynamic battle scenes: a crowd hauling a large wheeled cart and warriors on rearing horses, with a spear-wielding rider. A designer could take from them the energetic diagonal composition, dense crowded groupings, and bold calligraphic line work of woodblock-era Japanese prints.
