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A Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1896 by Kinkōdō, a Tokyo publisher, likely for general readers and artists studying Japanese graphic styles. Its pages show woodblock-style line drawings of figures in period dress: courtiers and attendants in a palace setting, a tall figure in a black robe with crest roundels, children in patterned festival coats carrying masks, and a boy with a ladder beside a lantern-like shrine. The line work is crisp and graphic, with dense patterns on textiles and clouds, and a designer could take from it strong black-and-white contrast, patterned costume motifs, and economical figure silhouettes.
