大坂軍記 : 絵本
A Japanese illustrated book (ehon) printed in 1887 by Bunsendō, a Japanese publisher, reproducing an older Osaka war chronicle for general readers. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style line illustrations of samurai in armour and court dress, with dense hatched textures on robes and armour and sparse calligraphic captions set in vertical columns beside the figures. A designer might take the bold, high-contrast figure silhouettes and the crisp vertical caption panels as models for layout and graphic motifs.
