絵本玉藻譚
This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) by Okada Gyokuzan, both writer and illustrator, published in 1886 by Sekishi Chūgadō and drawn for a general readership. Its woodblock-style black-and-white pages show a robed court woman under blossoming trees, a tumbling fight on a veranda, a woman seated on a wooden terrace, and a fox spirit with flaming tails looming over a kneeling man; a designer could draw on the bold ink outlines, dense cherry-blossom foliage, and dynamic figure poses.
