百人一首地口絵手本 前
This is a Japanese ehon picture book, titled 百人一首地口絵手本 (Hyakunin isshu jiguchi ehon), written by Baitei Shōfu, publisher unknown, presumably Edo-period, for ordinary readers and artists learning drawing. Its woodblock-style pages show seated commoners eating and working beside calligraphic verses that play on famous Hyakunin Isshu poems. A designer might take the bold ink line, compact figure poses, and the wordplay pairing of text and image as a model for witty caption-illustration layouts.
