岩見英雄録 : 絵本復讐 ６編４
This is a Meiji-era (1886) Japanese illustrated picture book, an ehon, written by Kentei-tei Togai and published by Maekawa Zenbei and others, aimed at general popular readers of revenge tales. Its woodblock-style line illustrations show samurai in interior rooms, a crouching retainer, a fleeing figure in a garden, and a lone swordsman against a dark night ground, with Japanese text columns beside the scenes. A designer might take its bold black-and-white hatching, dense foliage patterns, and compositions that frame action within sliding-screen rooms and cloud-shaped borders.
