絵本太平記
An 1887 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) edited and published by Sawa Hisajirō, drawing on the Taiheiki war chronicle for a general readership. Its woodblock-style pictures show armoured warriors in mid-action, scenes with women and retainers, and seated lords with speech bubbles and vertical kana captions. A designer might take the dynamic diagonal compositions, the dense hatched textures of armour and clouds, and the integration of calligraphic text panels into the image.
