絵本加藤清正一代記
Ehon picture book, a Meiji-era illustrated biography of the samurai Kato Kiyomasa, written by Nakura Kinan and published in 1890 by Nakura Shobundo in Japan for a general reading public. Its woodblock-style pages show armoured warriors in battle and camp scenes, with dense columns of Japanese text running beside and above the images, and a designer might take from them the bold silhouettes of armour, crowded text-and-image layouts, and the dramatic diagonal compositions of military action.
