絵本小栗判官美勇伝
An 1888 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) published by Akamatsu Ichitarō, retelling the legend of the hero Oguri Hangan in woodblock-printed pages for a general readership. The three pages show armoured warriors and courtly figures in dense black-and-white line work, with Japanese labels set beside the figures; a designer could take from them the bold hatched patterning of robes and armour and the compact, panel-based layout of late nineteenth-century Japanese print.
