笑と笑の芸術
A 1926 Japanese book, 笑と笑の芸術 (The Art of Laughter and Laughter), written by Sumiya Atsushi and published in Osaka by Ōsakaya Gōshoten, is an ehon picture book of comic scenes in woodblock-derived black-and-white line and tone. The pictures show a comic episode in a panel layout, with stylised figures in flat dark silhouette, expressive faces, and short handwritten Japanese captions; a designer might borrow the bold tonal blocks, the panel grid, and the crowded gestural humour.
