絵本三国妖婦伝
This Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon), published in 1885 by Takahashi Kyōjirō with text by Kōzan Ranzan, retells a Chinese Three Kingdoms tale of a seductive sorceress for a popular readership. Its woodblock-style black-and-white pages show dense figure groups, flowing robes and dramatic action, with bold outlines and patterned textiles a designer could borrow for dynamic line work, cropped compositions and traditional East Asian decorative motifs.
