絵本忠臣蔵稚話 初編
An 1885 Japanese picture book (ehon) titled Ehon Chūshingura Osanawa, first volume, compiled by Ban Genpei and published by Ishida Wasaburō in Tokyo, aimed at young readers and retelling the Chūshingura tale of the forty-seven ronin. The woodblock-style pictures show seated courtly figures behind patterned screens, a samurai beside a waterfall, a noble on a wooden stage with onlookers, and a man at a stone embankment by the sea. A designer could draw on their dense black linework, crest-patterned screens, and compact framed scenes with calligraphic captions.
