絵本加藤一代記
An 1887 Japanese woodblock-style picture book (ehon) compiled by Ikeda Tōen and published by him, retelling the life of the warrior Katō in simple illustrated scenes for a popular readership. The pictures are bold black-and-white line drawings with dense vertical columns of kana text beside each scene, showing armoured samurai, a seated lord in a courtyard, and a snowy mountain landscape with a volcano-like peak, useful to a designer for strong figure silhouettes, patterned kimono and armour textures, and integrated text-and-image layouts.
