絵本甲越軍記
This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Maki Kinnosuke and published in Tokyo by Kinjudō in 1887, a woodblock-style print book recounting the Kōetsu war chronicle of Takeda and Uesugi clan battles. Its pictures are bold black-and-white illustrations of armored warriors in dense action, with heavy inked masses, patterned armor, and calligraphic captions in vertical columns and cartouches that a designer could draw on for graphic layout, pattern, and high-contrast figure composition.
