絵本楠公記
An 1886 Japanese woodblock-printed picture book (ehon) published by Bunsendō, illustrating legends of the warrior Kusunoki Masashige for a general readership. The four pages show women in patterned kimono at a screened veranda, samurai in armour seated at a formal audience, a lord with attendants on a wooden floor, and a warrior before a lacquered table. A designer could draw on the dense line-cut patterning of kimono, screens and armour, and on the bold black-and-white contrast of the engraved outlines.
