菅公御一代記 : 絵本実録
A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock-style picture book (ehon) compiled by Tsunashima Kamekichi and published by him in 1886, telling the life story of the scholar-statesman Sugawara no Michizane for a general readership. Its pages show a robed courtier in a black-patterned garment seated before a screen, a lady in a patterned kimono on a veranda, a man writing at a low table, and a figure peering from behind a sliding door, with dense vertical columns of kana text beside each scene; a designer might take the tight black-and-white linework, the bold patterned textiles, and the way text and image share one panel.
