絵本更科草紙 : 勇婦全伝 3編 巻之1
This is a Japanese ehon picture book, Ehon Sarashina Zoshi, part of a Yuufu zenden series, written by Kuriyatei Kiran and illustrated by Ippōsai Baen, published by Okada Mohei in Edo in the early nineteenth century for a popular readership. Its woodblock prints show samurai in tense interior scenes and outdoor episodes of combat and grief, with bold black-and-white linework, dense hatching for snow and rock, and strong diagonal compositions that a designer could borrow for dramatic panel layouts.
