絵本通俗三国志 3編 巻之9
This is a Japanese illustrated edition of the Three Kingdoms romance, the third collection of volume nine, illustrated by Katsushika Taito and published by Okada Mohei in Edo for a popular readership. The woodblock pictures show crowded scholarly audiences in interiors, a figure addressing seated listeners, a boat on rough water, and fleets of sailing ships on open water, drawn with clean black outlines and dense hatching for waves that a designer could use for wave patterns, crowd compositions, and historical maritime scenes.
