絵本赤穂義士銘々伝
An 1887 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) by an unknown author, published by Tatsuda Noboru, retelling the lives of the Forty-seven Ronin of Akō in individual portraits and scenes. Its pages are rotated sideways in the scans, and the black-and-white woodblock-style prints show samurai in tense interior and garden settings with decorative patterned backgrounds, useful to a designer for bold figure silhouettes, traditional kimono patterning, and compact narrative panel layouts.
