絵本鼠小僧実記
An 1886 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) published by Kinsendō, its compiler unknown, presenting a popular account of the outlaw Nezumi Kozō for general readers. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style prints showing swordplay, a stealthy intruder, a crouching figure, and a seated older man with a kneeling figure in a tatami room; a designer might take their dense hatching, patterned kimono textures, and tight staged compositions as models for period narrative art.
