絵本更科草紙 : 勇婦全伝 3編 巻之5
This is a Japanese ehon picture book, Sarashina sōshi illustrated by Ippōsai Baen to a text by Kuritsujō Kiran, published by Okada Mohei in Edo for popular readers. The woodblock prints show armoured warriors in boats and on horseback, and a courtly interior with sliding screens and a figure seated beside a garden. A designer could take their bold black linework, dense patterned textiles and tightly packed compositions of figures in architectural settings.
