絵本菊地軍記
An 1887 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) compiled by Yamamoto Tsunejiro and published by Ryusodo, presenting a martial narrative for a general readership in woodblock-style line print. The first picture shows a fighter in dark robes lunging across a fenced garden with pursuers behind, and the second shows armoured samurai in a wooden pavilion beside a shoreline, with a labelled figure at left. Both pictures use dense black ink lines, bold silhouettes and text columns woven into the image, which a designer could take as a model for strong figure-ground contrast and integrating text with action.
