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This is a Meiji-era Japanese illustrated book, an ehon edition of the Soga monogatari tale published in Tokyo by Shibundō in 1884 under the compiler Isshō Koji. The woodblock-style line drawings show warriors in armour, a horse crossing a bridge over a river, and a strongman wrestling with a crowd, with captions set in boxes beside the scenes. A designer could take from them the economical black ink linework, the flat staging of figures against open space, and the calligraphic captions used as compositional elements.
