絵本千代萩
This Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon), compiled by Maki Kinnosuke and published in Tokyo by Kinjudō in 1889, presents a series of woodblock-style scenes for a general reading audience. Its double-page compositions show crowded interiors with figures in kimono and armour, framed by decorative borders and vertical columns of Japanese text. A designer might take the dense, multi-figure staging, the bordered panel layouts, and the strong black-and-white contrast as a model for editorial spreads.
