絵本四天王鬼賊退治実伝
This is a late nineteenth-century Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1890 by Kinōdō, illustrated with woodblock-style line drawings for a general readership interested in heroic legends. The five pictures show samurai, a bald monk, a lantern-lit interior, and a mountain scene with a figure among pines. A designer might take the bold black-and-white contrast, the stylised cloud and snow dots, and the dense patterned kimono textures as ready references for graphic work.
