義太夫二百段集 下
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book compiled by 大川錠吉 and published in 1912 by 聚栄堂, a Japanese woodblock-style ehon of popular theatre and ballad material. The first image is a framed block of four stylised seal-script characters within a star-and-dot border, and the second shows a figure in a kimono reading a sheet of calligraphic text beside a drawn cloud with a small scene of travellers on a road. A designer might take the bold border pattern, the cloud-framed vignettes and the dense black-and-white calligraphic panels as models for compact, high-contrast print layouts.
