絵本通俗三国志 ９
An 1883 Japanese ehon picture book published in Tokyo by Tōeki Shuppansha, a Japanese adaptation of the Three Kingdoms romance, translated by Konan Bunzan and expanded by Nakamura Yoriharu for a general readership. The four pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style prints with Japanese calligraphic captions: a moonlit night with a rocky pine cliff, a courtyard with a tree and a stone basin, a seated scholar beside a smoking brazier, and a fleet of junks along a mountain shoreline. A designer could draw on their strong ink contrast, dense pine foliage textures, and clean framing of landscape and interior scenes.
