絵本鹿児島太平記
Ehon Kagoshima Taiheiki is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book compiled by Nakamura Asakichi and published by him in 1887, retelling the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877 in woodblock-style illustrations with Japanese text. The pictures show smoke-filled battle scenes of soldiers with rifles, swords and cannon in dense ink line, with bold black silhouettes and dramatic diagonal compositions that a designer could draw on for dynamic action layouts and bold graphic contrast.
