絵本呉越軍談 ３編 １
This is a Meiji-era Japanese illustrated book, an ehon picture book printed in 1882 by Inoue Jihei, with text by Ikeda Tori and illustrations by Yanagawa Shigenobu, aimed at general readers of popular historical military tales. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style line drawings with dense hatching and patterned robes, showing seated figures in interiors, a bearded sage with a floating pagoda, and a dragon curling through clouds. A designer might take from them the bold contrast of black ink masses against white space and the decorative border frames.
