絵本鼠小僧実記
This is a Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) from 1887, compiled by Kuwabara Tokukatsu and published by Ichikawa Kame, telling the popular story of the thief Nezumi Kozō. The four woodblock-style pictures show figures in domestic and riverside scenes, drawn with dense patterned kimono textures, bold black outlines and sparse backgrounds, offering a designer examples of strong graphic pattern work and economical line drawing.
