絵本玉藻譚
This is a Meiji-era Japanese illustrated book (ehon) from 1887, written and illustrated by Okada Gyokuzan and published by Tsujioka Bunsuke, a woodblock-style picture book drawn on the Tamamo legend. The pictures show court ladies on wooden verandas, a fox spirit transforming in flight, and armed figures fighting on stairs, in fine uniform black line work. A designer could take from them the dense hatching, flowing robes and bold silhouettes of late Edo-style line illustration.
