絵本楠公記
An illustrated Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Kakuhari Eizaburō and published by Uedaya in 1887, retelling the life of the loyalist warrior Kusunoki Masashige in black-and-white woodblock-style prints. The pictures show courtly interiors, a seated figure in armour beside a shoji screen, and a snowy scene with a bed and figures in patterned robes, with kanji captions set in the margins. A designer could take from them the compositional rhythm of framed scenes with calligraphic labels, and the stark ink-line treatment of interiors, figures and weather.
