絵本名婦伝
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book from 1889, published by Sato Seizaburo, collecting woodblock-printed portraits of famous women with columns of kana and kanji text beside each figure. The pictures show seated and standing court women and noblewomen in patterned kimono, drawn in bold black outline with flat areas of pattern, a clear model for designers working with decorative textile motifs and dense vertical text layouts.
