新説絵本太閤記
A Meiji-era (1891) Japanese ehon picture book, the Shinsetsu Ehon Taikōki, compiled by Mu Nanno Shi and published by Ginkadō, illustrating the warrior-hero Toyotomi Hideyoshi's life for a general readership. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock prints of battle scenes, castle architecture and mounted samurai, drawn with crisp hatched ground patterns, stylised pine trees and dense cloud bands that a designer could borrow for bold, graphic compositions.
