連語図 : 絵本
This is a Meiji-era Japanese illustrated picture book of 1875, published by Umemura Yasubei and illustrated by Hasegawa Sadanobu, aimed at a general readership and dealing with compound phrases (rengo) in pictorial form. The four pictures are small woodblock-style scenes: a figure in a doorway beside a shoji screen, a figure and children in a tiled interior, a pair of faces beside calligraphic text panels, and a diagram of a box, scale and rule over a landscape. A designer might take their strong black-and-white outlines, dense hatching and mixed text-and-image layouts as models for compact, lively instructional graphics.
