絵本甲越軍記 後巻
This is a Japanese woodblock-printed ehon picture book, the later volume of an 1885 illustrated war chronicle compiled by Gashinsha and published by Kōgyokudō in Japan. Its pages are paired spreads of loosely drawn, hatched black-and-white scenes of armoured samurai in battle, mounted riders and courtly figures, with dense columns of Japanese text running beside the images. A designer might take the energetic line work, the crowded composition of arrows and banners, and the way text and image share a page.
