絵本南総里見八犬伝 第2篇
A Meiji-era printed edition (1909, Kinkodo) of Takizawa Bakin's Japanese picture book, the second volume of the Nansō Satomi Hakkenden, a samurai adventure story compiled for a general reading public. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style line illustrations with dense hatching, showing swordfights, crowded interiors and armoured warriors in tight compositions; a designer might borrow their bold figure silhouettes, patterned kimono textures and calligraphic panel labels.
