通俗絵本三国志 下
A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book from 1887, published by Bunjidō, retelling the Three Kingdoms story for a general readership. Its pictures are dense black-and-white line engravings with dramatic groupings of warriors, horses and attendants, framed by brief Japanese captions, and a designer might take their crowded compositions, bold outlines and stylised pine trees as a model for narrative layout.
