絵本太閤記 ４編 巻９
This is a Japanese woodblock-printed picture book (ehon) from 1886, illustrated and written by Okada Gyokuzan and published by Sanshido and others, depicting episodes from the life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in black-and-white line art. The pictures show courtly figures in pale patterned robes on tatami floors, mounted samurai in armour with a horse, and a crowded melee of armoured warriors among pines, a layout a designer could borrow for compositions built from dense crowd scenes and simple ink linework.
