絵本楠公記
A late nineteenth-century Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1887 by Bunsendō, printed in woodblock-style line engraving with Japanese captions for a general readership. The pages show armoured warriors in a palace hall, a samurai in full armour beside a stone lantern, a drinking party of monks and courtesans, and a woman reading a scroll in a room with maple branches. A designer could take the dense hatched patterns on armour and textiles, the bold black outlines, and the tight framing of figures against screens and architecture.
