絵本太功記十段目
A Japanese picture book (ehon) from 1889, published by Seirindō, titled Ehon Taikōki, the tenth act of a dramatized history for popular readers. Its pictures are bold black-and-white woodblock-style prints: a vertical title panel with heavy brush-like characters, a close-up of a label with a number, a dense field of horizontal ruled lines, and a dark box-like object with a curled handle. A designer might take from them the strong vertical lettering, high-contrast black shapes, and the rhythm of repeated ruled lines.
