絵本太閤記 初編 巻1,2
An 1882 Tokyo printed Japanese picture book (ehon) on the life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Taiko, with text in Japanese characters and woodblock-style black-and-white line illustrations, made for general readers by Okada Gyokuzan and expanded by Nakamura Yoriharu. Its pictures show samurai in armour, a bow-tree or pine-framed interior, and dramatic courtyard confrontations, offering a designer clear figure poses, dense ink-line hatching and framing devices borrowed from Edo-period woodblock prints.
