絵本西遊記全伝 初編 巻5,6
This is a Japanese illustrated edition (ehon) of the Journey to the West, adapted from the Chinese novel by the translator Kōboku Sanjin and published in Tokyo in 1883 by Tōkyō Kinkyoku Shuppansha for a general reading public. Its woodblock-style black-and-white pictures show episodes of the monkey pilgrim, with dense brush-stroked foliage, rocks and clouds, and figures in action, offering a designer examples of compact narrative panels, calligraphic captions set into the image, and lively line-based crowd and landscape work.
