絵本真田三代記
This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1888 by Sawa Kyujiro, retelling the Sanada family's three generations in woodblock-printed pages with kana text. The first picture shows two seated samurai in an interior, with the text columns running down the page in vertical lines. The second shows a armoured warrior striding through rain past rocky cliffs and pine trees, drawn in bold, dense black linework that a designer could borrow for high-contrast, hatched graphic treatments.
