絵本太閤記 : 真書実伝
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) printed in 1887 by the Shinshindō publisher, retelling the life of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi in woodblock-style line illustrations. The pictures show palace interiors with patterned screens, armoured warriors in mid-combat on wooden stairs and galleries, and seated lords in formal dress, with bold black-and-white linework and dense textile patterning a designer could draw on for ornament, compositional framing, and dramatic action poses.
