絵本高木武勇伝
A Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) published in 1886 by Shōfudaya, a woodblock-printed popular adventure tale with bold black-and-white compositions. Its images show armoured warriors, swordplay and sea-going battles in dense, hatched woodcut line, and some pages are printed sideways. A designer might take the dynamic diagonal layouts, dense hatching textures and framed panels with vertical calligraphic captions.
