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An 1887 Japanese illustrated history primer, the Tsūzoku kokushi ryaku ehon, written by Aoki Sukekiyo and published by Dōmeisha in Tokyo for general and young readers. Its pictures are crisp black-and-white woodblock-style line drawings of historical episodes, with captions in kana, and a designer could take their bold calligraphic outlines, hatched shading, and spare compositions as reference for narrative panel layouts.
