絵本更科草紙 : 勇婦全伝 巻之3
This is an illustrated Japanese picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, volume 3 of a heroic-woman adventure tale, written by Kuriyadeigo Kiran and illustrated by Ippōsai Baen, published by Okada Mohei. The woodblock prints show swordfights, a tiled-roof hall with courtiers, and a figure crouched on a rooftop beside a dark ridge, with a wild waterfall-and-cliff landscape at the top. A designer could take the bold black-line woodcut contrast, the dense hatching of foliage and water, and the compressed layered staging of interior, roof, and rocky scene.
