通俗絵本三国志 第1巻-第5巻
A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock-style picture book (ehon) published by Seibunsha in 1885, retelling the Three Kingdoms romance in five volumes for a general readership. The pictures are bold black-and-white line prints of armoured warriors in combat, with dense hatching on armour, arrows and flying birds, and captions in vertical Japanese script framed by ornamental borders. A designer could draw on their strong figure silhouettes, dynamic diagonal poses, and patterned armour textures.
