絵本西遊記全伝 ４編
A Meiji-era (1883) Japanese illustrated edition of the Journey to the West adventure, the fourth installment of a picture book series published by Hōkisho and adapted by Gakutei Kyuzan. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style prints of fighting crowds, rushing torrents and tiled interiors, with the Japanese captions set in vertical columns beside the scenes; a designer might take their dense crowded compositions, bold black masses against fine hatching, and the vertical text panels as a model for dramatic action layouts.
