A New Record Comparing the Handwriting of the Courtesans of the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin jihitsu kagami)
A woodblock-printed book of ukiyo-e prints by Santō Kyōden, published in Edo in 1784 by Tsutaya Jūzaburō, for a popular audience interested in the courtesans of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter. Its pictures show elegantly dressed women in interiors, with calligraphic poems set in vertical columns across the spreads, which a designer might take as a model for layered text and figure composition.
