元寇画帖 : 護国記念精神教育
A 1909 Japanese picture album of the Mongol invasions, compiled by Yu Tejo and published by the Kokugakuin university press in Tokyo for patriotic moral education. The pictures are black-and-white reproductions of woodblock-style scenes of samurai and soldiers in combat on shore and sea, with some Chinese-style calligraphic captions in the margins. A designer might take the dense, high-contrast crowd compositions and the textured ink-like rendering of armour, banners and waves.
