絵本西郷一代記 1
An 1877 Japanese ehon picture book, Ehon Saigo Ichidaiki volume 1, compiled by Hayakawa Tokunosuke and published by Komori Sojiro, a woodblock-printed popular history of the samurai leader Saigo Takamori for general readers. Its pages pair bold black-line figures of samurai and townsfolk with dense vertical Japanese text panels, and a designer might take the strong calligraphic line, the crowded text-and-image layouts, and the flat hatched patterning of robes and ground.
