絵本徳川十五代記
A late nineteenth-century Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Shimizu Jirōji and published in 1887 by Ginkadō, presenting the fifteen generations of the Tokugawa shogun lineage in woodblock-style portraits. Its pictures show formally seated and standing figures in layered robes, armour and court dress, each labelled with a generation name in a vertical column, framed by ornamental borders. A designer might take the dense patterned kimono textures, the stiff ceremonial poses, and the vertical caption cartouches as reference for historical Japanese print layouts.
