絵本通俗三国志 ３
An 1883 Japanese ehon picture book, the third volume of a popular illustrated version of the Three Kingdoms romance, translated by Kosen Bunzan and expanded by Nakamura Yoriharu and published in Tokyo by Dōeki Shuppansha for a general readership. Its woodblock-printed pages show armoured warriors and soldiers in dense crowds among pine trees, with a boat and a river scene; a designer could take from them the dynamic crowd compositions, bold black-and-white line work, and the dramatic use of pine foliage framing action.
