絵本千代萩
This is a Japanese illustrated picture book (ehon) compiled by Maki Kinnosuke and published in Tokyo in 1890 by Kinjudo. The first picture shows a group of richly dressed women and a child in an interior with a hanging lantern, drawn in bold black-and-white woodblock style with decorative patterned borders, while the second shows a vase of chrysanthemums and plum blossoms on a lattice-patterned ground. A designer might take the strong figure silhouettes, the dense patterned kimono textures, and the framed bordered layouts as models for bold monochrome graphics.
