毛谷村六助一代記 : 絵本実録
A Meiji-era Japanese illustrated book (ehon) printed in 1888 by the publisher Tsunashima Kamekichi, retelling the life of the samurai Kemuraya Rokusuke in a popular, vernacular picture-book format. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style prints of standing and striding figures in striped and checked kimono, with dense vertical columns of kana text filling the surrounding margins. A designer could take their bold hatched patterns, strong figure silhouettes, and the interplay of dense text blocks beside open, dynamic image areas.
