Kottōshū / Seisei Rōjin zuihitsu : Volume 1, part 2
A Japanese woodblock-printed book of miscellaneous essays by Santō Kyōden, published in Edo in 1814 by Chōjiya Heibei for a literate readership. Its pages pair dense columns of vertical Japanese text with small black-and-white woodblock scenes of courtly figures, soldiers at a banner-lined field, and townspeople in patterned kimono, drawn with crisp outlines and sparse shading that a designer could borrow for graphic linework and layout.
