絵本太閤記
An 1887 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) compiled and published by Sawa Kyujiro, a popular woodblock-style historical romance about the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi, printed for general readers in Japan. Its pages show armoured samurai in dynamic combat beside dense columns of vertical Japanese text, with hatched ink textures and bold black outlines that a designer could draw on for graphic compositions of action and text.
