絵本太閤記 初編 巻7,8
An 1882 Tokyo ehon picture book, the Japanese illustrated biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, published by Tokyo Dōeki Shuppansha and drawn by Okada Gyokuzan with additions by Nakamura Yoriharu for a popular readership. Its pages are black-and-white woodblock-style line prints of samurai battles, castle walls and rivers, which a designer could draw on for bold, hand-cut linework, dense crowd compositions and traditional Japanese bird's-eye landscape framing.
