Picture Book of the Suikoden (The Water Margin) Loyalty (Chūgi Suikoden ehon 忠義水滸伝画本)
A woodblock-printed Japanese picture book of 1829 by Katsushika Hokusai, published by Manbando, illustrating heroes from the Chinese novel Water Margin for a general readership. Its double-page spreads show warriors, scholars and bandits in full figure with calligraphic name captions beside them, drawn in clean, confident black outlines with little shading. A designer could take from them the economy of single-line figure drawing, the dynamic poses of armoured fighters, and the integration of vertical text labels into the composition.
