絵本太閤記 上
This is a late Meiji-era Japanese woodblock-printed picture book (ehon), published in 1887 by Bunjidō, with text and images by Okada Gyokuzan about the life of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The pictures show armoured samurai in dense crosshatched black-and-white line work, with calligraphic captions set in cartouches and scattered confetti-like petals or dots on plain grounds, giving a designer strong graphic contrast, hatching patterns, and framing devices to draw on.
