通俗絵本三国志 上
A Japanese popular picture book (ehon) of the Three Kingdoms romance, printed in 1886 by Bunjidō for a general readership. Its pictures are dense woodblock-style black-and-white battle and palace scenes with crowded figures, flying debris, and swirling clouds of smoke and dust. A designer might take from them the energetic hatching, bold figure silhouettes, and dramatic compositional tension of late Edo-style illustration.
