絵本白波五人男
An 1888 Japanese picture book (ehon) published by Bunjidō, edited by Itō Senzō, drawing on the Shiranami Gonin Otoko stage tradition for a general popular readership. Its pictures are black-and-white woodcut-style prints of samurai and gangsters in dramatic night scenes, with dense hatched robes, calligraphic name cartouches and speech-bubble captions, suggesting bold patterned textiles, inked line work and graphic framing for a designer.
