絵本慶安太平記
An illustrated Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Ōkawa Jōkichi and published in 1901 by Ōkawaya Shoten in Tokyo, aimed at general readers of popular historical tales. The first picture shows a circular vignette of a tree-lined path with a wooden gate and a lantern-bearing figure, set above a rocky hillside with a pagoda, a shrine gate and small figures. The second is a cover-style print of a samurai in a long cloak holding a sword, with a second man under an umbrella behind him and a title in vertical characters, all in fine stippled line work that a designer could borrow for vintage Japanese typography, framing devices or pen-and-ink landscape texture.
