Banpō zensho : Volume 9
Banpō zensho, volume 9, printed in 1770 by Edo and Osaka publishers Suharaya Mohē, Zōgeya Jirobē and Tsurugaya Kuhē, is a Japanese woodblock reference volume on antiquities of Japan and China. Its pages are rows of ink-printed coins, each shown face-on with its inscribed square hole and the reading and description script set beside it, which suggests a designer could borrow the repeated circular coin grid and the tidy classification layout.
