絵本太閤記
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Nakura Kamekusu and published by Nakura Shobunkan in 1890, a popular illustrated retelling of the life of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi for general readers. Its pictures are crude, densely hatched black-and-white woodcut-style prints with handwritten katakana glosses and speech bubbles beside the figures, showing samurai in action and in quiet scenes; a designer might take the bold cross-hatched line, the sparse ground and the integration of text into the picture space.
