絵本常夏草紙 : 於夏清十郎
An 1886 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) by Takizawa Bakin, published by Nakajima Giichi, presumably for popular readers in Japan. Its pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style line prints with dense cross-hatching, showing dramatic scenes of combat, a figure in a bamboo thicket, and a lady in a garden, with Japanese captions in columns that a designer could borrow for bold graphic layouts and calligraphic framing.
