小桜姫風月奇観 : 絵本 (後記)巻之5
An 1840s-era Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) by Santo Kyōzan, written and illustrated by Utagawa Kunisada and published in Edo by Okada Mohei and associates, a woodblock-printed popular fiction volume. The three pictures are monochrome woodblock prints showing swirling water and rocky riverbanks, a crowded interior scene with lanterns and seated figures beside a river view, and a robed woman rising above waves with rays of light behind her. A designer might take from them the flowing, calligraphic line used to render water and the strong contrast of black linework on white paper.
