絵本平井権八一代記
A late nineteenth-century Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1888 by Shinshindō, retelling the life of the outlaw hero Hirai Gonpachi for a general popular readership. Its woodblock-style black line illustrations show samurai, fighting figures, and scenes in gardens and along riverbanks, with bold Japanese calligraphic captions, offering a designer strong examples of dynamic figure poses, heavy inked outlines, and swirling cloud patterns.
