絵本鼠小僧実記
A Japanese illustrated book (ehon) compiled by Nakamura Asakichi and published by him in 1887, telling the story of the thief Nezumi Kozō in woodblock-style pictures with Japanese text. The first picture shows a group of men in a crowded print, with figures in kimono and hakama, one kneeling and others standing with long poles; the second shows a man in dark robes reading a document beside seated figures, framed by columns of vertical text. A designer might take from these the dense interplay of printed kana columns with figure drawing, and the bold black-and-white line work of hand-cut blocks used for narrative sequences.
