袖珍絵本徳川十五代記
A Meiji-era pocket picture book from 1887 published by Shinshindō, illustrating the fifteen shoguns of the Tokugawa line for a general Japanese readership. Its woodblock-printed pages show crowded groups of samurai in armour and court robes, each figure labelled with a name cartouche, so a designer can take the dense compositions, patterned kimono, and armour detailing as reference for period costume and framing.
