絵本西遊記全伝 初編 巻1,2
This is a Japanese illustrated edition (ehon) of the Journey to the West story, translated by Kōboku Sanjin and published in Tokyo in 1883 for a general popular readership. The woodblock-style pictures show a monkey hero in armoured fighting with troops among rocky mountains, a court scene before an emperor under a pavilion, and crowded figures on a cliff. A designer could take the bold black-line inking, the dense hatching for foliage and rock, and the compact framing of action within landscape.
