絵本四天王鬼賊退治実伝
An 1887 Japanese ehon picture book published by Ginkadō, a Japanese picture book of the period, whose title is written in Japanese characters and whose intended readers are general Japanese audiences. The two pictures are black-and-white woodcut-style prints of samurai in armour and robes, one showing a group seated around a low table with a flurry of scattered square patterns, the other a standing warrior with a sword beside a kneeling figure in patterned armour. A designer might take from them the bold hatched textures, dense ink patterning, and the way scattered motif flecks fill empty space around figures.
