Santoan's Chats: Short Records Written upon His Waking (Suiyo shōroku: Santōan issekiwa) : [volume 2]
Santoan's Chats is a Japanese woodblock-printed book of miscellaneous notes and sketches by Santō Kyōden (1761-1816), published in Osaka in 1844 by Fujiya Kyūbei for a general readership of cultivated townspeople. Its pages mix handwritten kana verse with ink drawings of a sedan-type palanquin, a woven mat, a standing woman in a patterned kimono holding a fan, and a plum branch. A designer might take the sparse, economical linework and the pairing of calligraphic text with small, precise motifs as a model for editorial layout.
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