Collection of Thirty-six Kyōka Poems (Roku roku kyōka sen 六々狂歌撰)
A Japanese woodblock book of thirty-six kyōka comic poems, published in Kyoto in 1814 by Yoshida Shinbei and attributed to Fukuchi Hakuei, a little-documented early nineteenth-century artist. Each double-page spread pairs a plain landscape or garden scene in ink outline with pale washes of yellow, green and grey, beside columns of handwritten poetry. A designer might take its spare horizon lines, pared-back architecture and restrained colour blocks as a model for quiet, minimal layouts.
