絵本通俗三国志 初編 巻之2
This is a Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, illustrated by Katsushika Taito for the Okada Mohei publishing house, retelling episodes of the Three Kingdoms romance for a general popular readership. The pictures are black-and-white line prints with dense hatching, showing robed warriors, scholars and figures in landscapes with pines, willows and rocks, with calligraphic captions set in the margins; a designer could take their economical contour lines, patterned foliage and vertical caption columns as a model for graphic composition.
