通俗絵本三国志 巻1-15(上)
This 1885 Japanese illustrated book, the Tsūzoku ehon Sangokushi, was published by Kakusei-sha in Tokyo as a popular picture-book retelling of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms for general readers. Its pages are black-and-white woodblock-style prints of armoured warriors in battle, a mounted general, and a scene of a woman in a palace interior, with bold ink contours, stippled ground, and dense calligraphic captions in the upper margins that a designer could borrow for dynamic line and cropped composition.
