絵本曽我物語 2,3
An 1883 Japanese picture book (ehon) in volumes 2 and 3 of the Soga monogatari, a medieval warrior tale, compiled by Ikkō Koji and illustrated by Hokkyō Chūwa, published in Tokyo by Tōkyō Kingyoku Shuppansha. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style line illustrations showing armoured warriors, travellers on a roadside, and a bridge scene in a landscape with pines and water, offering a designer clear, bold figure silhouettes and dense crowd compositions to draw on for samurai-era or Japanese narrative graphics.
