絵本水戸黄門一代記
An 1887 Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) compiled by Nakamura Asakichi and published by him, telling the life of the Mito Komon, a legendary Edo-period lord. The pictures are rough woodblock-style line prints with bold outlines and dense hatching; one shows a figure with a staff trudging through slanted rain lines across a field, while others show a dramatic group scene with a bald figure, a startled face and a shrine gate. A designer might take the diagonal rain hatching and the bold, crude linework as a model for graphic texture and expressive, cartoonish character faces.
