絵本西遊記全伝 初編
This is a Japanese illustrated edition of the Journey to the West story, published in 1883 by Hōkisho-ya, adapted from the Chinese novel by the author Kōboku Sanjin and translator Gakutei Kyūzan for a popular readership. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style line drawings with dense hatching, bold outlines, and vertical columns of Japanese text, showing fantastic battles, monsters, and mythic figures in dynamic compositions a designer could adapt for dramatic linework and patterning.
