絵本徳川十五代記
A Meiji-era (1887) Japanese woodblock-style picture book, compiled by Naitō Hikoichi and published by Yasukawa Matashichi, recounting the fifteen generations of the Tokugawa shogunate in illustrated pages with vertical Japanese text. The pages show courtiers and warriors in robes and armour seated in interiors, verandas, and open landscapes, with speech bubbles and captions; a designer might take their dense inked linework, framed panels, and calligraphic text blocks as a model for historical period compositions.
