絵本通俗三国志 7編 巻之6
A Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, illustrated by Katsushika Taito and published by Okada Mohei, retelling the Romance of the Three Kingdoms for a popular readership. Its pictures show crowded scenes of warriors, scholars and servants in gardens, pavilions and riverside boats, drawn in crisp black line with dense hatching and calligraphic captions in the margins. A designer might borrow the bold contour line, the patterned textile and tiled-ground hatching, and the vertical columns of text as a compositional device.
