絵本通俗三国志 2編 巻之10
This is a Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, a volume of the Three Kingdoms romance, illustrated by Katsushika Taito and published by Okada Mohei for popular readers. The four pictures show interiors with screens and tiled floors, a bow-wielding warrior beside a stream, and a ghostly figure over seated women, rendered in bold black line with sparse hatching. A designer could take from them the economical contrast of dense black foliage and water against open white ground, and the stylised way Japanese woodblock artists handled crowds, costume and landscape.
