絵本通俗三国志 ２
A Meiji-era Japanese illustrated edition of the Three Kingdoms romance, published in Tokyo in 1883 by Tokyo Doeki Shuppansha with text by Kohn Sanbun and expansion by Nakamura Yoriji, aimed at general popular readers. Its pictures are woodblock-style black-and-white scenes of bearded scholars, warriors and hermits set among rocks, pines, bamboo and water, drawn with crisp outlines and dense ink-black shadows that a designer could borrow for bold graphic compositions and calligraphic captions.
