通俗絵本三国志 上
A Japanese illustrated popular edition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, published in 1887 by Bunjidō for a general readership, with woodblock-style ink prints. The pictures show crowded interior and garden scenes of warriors, attendants and heavy stone or wooden furniture, with dense hatched shading and small Japanese captions set in the margins, giving a designer a strong model for bold black-and-white narrative layouts and decorative ornament.
