絵本大久保一代記
A Meiji-era (1887) Japanese picture book, an ehon compiled by Nakamura Asakichi and published by him, presumably for general popular readers of the period. Its woodblock pages show swordfighting scenes with tall, angular figures in striped and dark kimono, set against bamboo-lattice interiors and gravel ground, with dense vertical Japanese text columns and speech captions. A designer might take the bold black-and-white hatching, the dynamic diagonal sword poses, and the integration of calligraphic text into the picture field.
