絵本徳川十五代記
An 1887 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) compiled by Kaba Itsunosuke and published by Nakamura Asakichi, presenting the history of the fifteen Tokugawa shoguns to a general readership. Its pictures are coarse black-and-white woodblock-style scenes of interiors, armoured figures, and figures in court dress, with dense vertical columns of Japanese text beside them. A designer might take the bold, high-contrast linework, the compressed vertical text panels, and the strong figure silhouettes against plain interior backgrounds.
