絵本敵討白石話 : 宮城野しのぶ ３
This is a Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) printed in 1877 by the publisher Okada Mohei, one volume of a multi-part vengeance tale set in traditional Japanese architecture. The pictures show indoor and garden scenes with seated figures, tea service, verandas, pine trees and small boats on water, drawn in fine black line with little shading. A designer could take from them the clean linear rhythm of the woodblock style and the compositional device of spreads split by a central gutter.
