絵本通俗三国志 3編 巻之4
This is a Japanese woodblock-printed picture book (ehon) from the Meiji-era period of the late nineteenth century, illustrated by Katsushika Taito and published by Okada Mohei, drawn from the Chinese Three Kingdoms romance for a general reading public. The pictures are black-and-white line engravings with dense hatching, showing armoured soldiers on a hillside, a seated scholar in a pavilion among tall urns, a figure leaping into rushing waves, and a robed man beside large jars under a canopy. A designer might take the clean, heavily cross-hatched linework, the stylised rock and wave patterns, and the framing of figures within architectural settings.
