Kan'yōsai Picture Album (Kan'yōsai gafu 寒葉斎画譜) : [preface volume]
A Japanese woodblock-printed preface volume from Edo in 1762, issued by the publisher Suharaya Ichibei for a readership of painting students, with a preface by Takebe Ayatari (1719-1774) in dense hand-brushed-style characters. The two pictures are the facing pages of the preface and a bold title panel reading Gafu in a framed block, showing the printed calligraphic layout a designer could borrow for strong typographic hierarchy and vertical text.
![Picture 1 of 2 from Kan'yōsai Picture Album (Kan'yōsai gafu 寒葉斎画譜) : [preface volume] (1762), leaf 2](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_13123-2-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 2 from Kan'yōsai Picture Album (Kan'yōsai gafu 寒葉斎画譜) : [preface volume] (1762), leaf 11](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_13123-11-1.webp)