絵本朝鮮征伐記
This Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) of 1887, compiled by Aoki Sukekiyo and published by him, retells the Korean campaigns of the sixteenth century for a general reading public. Its pages are black-and-white woodblock-style prints of armoured warriors, river crossings, and snowy mountain landscapes, with calligraphic captions set in vertical columns. A designer might borrow the dense hatching, the bold silhouettes of armour against open ground, and the vertical caption panels as a template for historical graphics.
