絵本白浪弁天小僧
An 1890 Japanese woodblock-style picture book (ehon) compiled by Maki Kinnosuke and published by Kinjudō, illustrating a tale of outlaws and robbers for a popular readership. The pictures show tense, crowded scenes of men in patterned kimono and a dark-robed figure, rendered in bold black-and-white line with dense hatching and cropped framing, which a designer might take as a model for dramatic crowd composition and graphic pattern work.
