絵本四国攻軍記 : 古今実伝
An 1887 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) published by Kinkōdō and compiled by Arakawa Tōbē, presenting a historical account of military campaigns in Shikoku for a general readership. The woodblock-style pictures show battle scenes with crowded armoured warriors, spears and banners on steep hillsides, and a walled castle with tiled roofs and pine trees. A designer could draw on their dense, energetic compositions, the flat hatched linework, and the tangled overlapping figures and landscape.
