名家合作地口画譜
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1894 by Hakubunkan, a collection of jokey pictures and wordplay drawings. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style prints with brief handwritten or printed verse in the margins, and they show a man leading a black ox along a path, a robed figure with a staff, a samurai-clad man beside a hollyhock fence, and a pine branch with a bird. A designer might take from them the economical brushwork, open white space, and the way text and image play off each other on the page.
