岩見英雄録 : 絵本復讐 ７編７
This is a Meiji-era Japanese woodblock-style picture book (ehon) from 1886, written by Kenkontei Togai and published by Maekawa Zenbei and others in Tokyo, aimed at a general reading public and telling a samurai revenge story in illustrated episodes. The pictures are bold black-and-white line drawings with dense patterned textiles, flowering-plum screens and hatched hakama folds, which a designer might take as a model for strong graphic silhouettes, patterned surfaces and compact narrative panels with vertical calligraphic captions.
