絵本赤穂義士銘々伝
An 1888 Japanese picture book, the Ehon Akō gishi meimeiden, published by Ishikawa Dengichi, retelling the lives of the forty-seven loyal retainers of Akō in woodblock-style line illustrations. The pictures show armed men in patterned hakama and kimono, a fighter in a striking crouched pose, and a seated figure against a geometric lattice wall, with bold black masses against fine hatched lines and patterned textiles that a designer could borrow for graphic pattern work.
