通俗絵本漢楚軍談
A Japanese woodblock-printed picture book (ehon) published in 1887 by Kokodo, with illustrations of armoured warriors and battle scenes drawn for a general readership. Its pictures show figures in robes and armour, a monkey-like warrior leaping over a crowd, and a rider on a horse beside a wooden fence, all in dense, crisp line work. A designer might take its bold black outlines, patterned textiles, and compact figure-and-landscape compositions as a model for graphic borders and dynamic action layouts.
