絵本太平記 10巻 坤
This is a Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, a illustrated edition of the Taiheiki war chronicle in ten volumes, with the printed Japanese text running in columns beside the pictures. The pages are double-spread compositions of armoured warriors, palace interiors, and supernatural scenes, drawn in dense black line with hatching for cloth and smoke. A designer might take from them the compact panel layouts, the swirling cloud and smoke motifs, and the way text columns are woven around figures.
