絵本通俗三国志 巻５
This is an 1884 Japanese woodblock-style picture book (ehon) published by Shimizu Ichijirō, an adaptation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms for a general popular readership. The four pictures are black-and-white line illustrations of armored warriors and courtiers in dramatic, crowded scenes with kanji captions set in cartouches. A designer could take their dense hatching, bold outlines, and patterned floors and textiles as a model for graphic texture and narrative panel layout.
