絵本柳荒美談
An 1885 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) published by Kinmatsudō, with its editor unknown, made for a popular readership in Meiji-era Japan. Its pictures are woodblock-style black-and-white figure scenes with calligraphic captions in cartouches, showing samurai in dark robes, a bald monk with a staff, and a seated figure beside sliding screens. A designer might take the bold line work, patterned kimono textures, and the framing of single figures against pine branches and simple ground.
