通俗絵本三国志 下
A Japanese illustrated edition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, published by Bunjidō in 1886 as a popular picture book for general readers. The four pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style line prints of armoured warriors, a fight on a wooden stair before a palace window, a mounted battle with spears, and a figure digging among rocks and pines. Designers can take dense hatching, lively crowded compositions, and the calligraphic cartouches with their vertical labels as a source for bold graphic linework.
