絵本楠公記
A Japanese woodblock-printed picture book (ehon) published in 1886 by Bunsendō, a Tokyo-style commercial publisher, aimed at general readers and drawn from the chronicle of the loyalist warrior Kusunoki Masashige. The four pictures show armoured warriors in a palace interior, a fallen warrior among scattered arrows and swords, women and children playing in a room with autumn maple leaves, and a monk seated with a woman beside a folding screen. A designer could take bold black-and-white line work, dense hatched textiles and patterned robes, and the framing of text cartouches set into the image.
