帝国図書館一覧
A Meiji-era annual report from the Imperial Library (Teikoku Toshokan) in Tokyo, published in 1901, compiled by the library for officials and readers interested in its collection statistics. The two pictures are vertical tables of printed Japanese characters with line graphs plotting book counts and loans by year, with dense columns of kanji and small fold-out chart rules. A designer could take the strict grid structure and the overlaid line graphs as a model for data-driven layout, with the clean ink-on-paper contrast of the typography.
