絵本平井権八一代記
An 1888 Japanese picture book (ehon) published by Kakusei-sha, retelling the life of the outlaw-hero Hirai Gonpachi for a general reading public. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style prints of samurai and townspeople in interiors, with dense patterned kimono and lattice screens a designer could draw on for pattern and line work.
