絵本通俗近世史略
Ehon Tsuzoku Kinsei Shiryaku is a Meiji-era Japanese illustrated history of recent times, compiled by Yamaguchi Ken with revisions by Aoki Sukekiyo and additions by Miyoshi Morio, published in 1891 by Okawa Jokichi in Tokyo for a general readership. Its four portraits show bearded and clean-shaven men in Western-style military uniforms with sashes and decorations alongside one in a plain kimono, rendered in soft lithographic tone with a flat, documentary feel that suggests a model for formal portrait layouts, dignified frames and period captions.
