日清戦争文字の画譜
A Japanese woodblock-style picture book from 1895, published by Wada Bunpōdō, explaining the Sino-Japanese War through caricatured figures and printed speech labels. The pictures show quick ink-line caricatures of Japanese and Chinese types with boxed dialogue captions, and a designer might take their loose brushwork, expressive gestures, and framed text cartouches as models for comic-style characters and speech-bubble layouts.
