絵本太閤記 下
Ehon Taiko-ki, volume two, a Japanese woodblock picture book published in 1886 by Junzaburo Morimoto with illustrations by Umedo Kunimasa, aimed at general readers and telling the life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in episodic scenes. The pictures use bold black outlines, flat areas of pattern, and vertical columns of text beside the images, a layout a designer could borrow for panel-based storytelling. Armoured warriors, interiors, and winter landscapes recur, showing strong figure silhouettes against simple backgrounds.
