絵本柳荒美談
This Japanese picture book, published in 1887 by Kinshōdō with its editor unidentified, presents popular tales of loyal and heroic men in a traditional ehon format. The four pages show samurai in patterned robes and hakama, one bearing a long staff through a bamboo grove, others striding past pines or standing against a scattered square-motif ground. A designer might take from them the strong silhouettes of layered kimono, the dense black-and-white hatching of woodblock-style line work, and the boxed captions set beside the figures.
