絵本忠臣蔵銘々伝
An 1885 Japanese ehon picture book, the Ehon Chūshingura meimeiden, compiled by Kaba Tatsunosuke and published by Fūgetsu Shōzaemon, presenting individual portraits of the loyal retainers of the Chūshingura story. Each full-page woodblock figure stands in a dramatic pose beside vertical columns of printed kana text and names in the margins, giving a designer a clear model for combining bold figure silhouettes with calligraphic captions and boxed title panels.
