Chaki meibutsushū
A Japanese manuscript-style book of 1868 from the Smithsonian Libraries catalogue, presumably made for tea ceremony practitioners, recording named tea utensils. The page pairs handwritten Japanese columns with a single outline drawing of a tea bowl, its rim and foot sketched in plain black line. A designer could take from it the economy of a simple contour drawing with a caption set beside it, a layout of text in vertical columns alongside one centred object.
