絵本鼠小僧実記
An 1887 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) published by Shinshindō, with its editor unknown, presenting a popular narrative about the thief Nezumi Kozō for a general readership. The woodblock-style pictures show samurai-period scenes of swordplay, a figure crouched beside a pile of books and a figure tending a low table in an interior room, rendered in dense black line with patterned kimono textures and calligraphic cartouches that a designer could borrow for bold graphic compositions and textile-like pattern work.
