絵本通俗三国志 7編 巻之9
A Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, illustrated by Katsushika Taito for the publisher Okada Mohei, retelling episodes from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms for popular readers. The pictures are bold black-and-white line prints with dense calligraphic captions in the margins, showing interior room scenes, a coastal landscape with a distant mountain, and a warrior grappling with a masked opponent. A designer might draw on their sharp contour lines, patterned screens and textiles, and the dramatic diagonal composition of the fight scene.
