絵本武者考鑑 3巻
An 18th-century Japanese woodblock picture book in three volumes, published in 1744 by Hishiya Jihei and illustrated by Nishikawa Sukenobu, aimed at general readers interested in warriors and martial history. Its pages pair columns of Japanese text with black-line illustrations of armoured samurai in combat, on horseback, and on rocky ground. A designer might take its economical contour line, flat hatching, and dynamic figure poses in tight vertical panels as a model for graphic illustration.
