絵本阿房袋 2巻
A two-volume Japanese picture book (ehon) from 1794, written by Sakuragawa Jihei and illustrated by Utagawa Toyokuni, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi for a general popular readership. Its pages are woodblock-printed line drawings of comic scenes of townspeople and samurai, with handwritten kana verses in speech balloons and cartouches, showing how Edo-period comic figures were posed, dressed and gestured. A designer could draw on the expressive exaggerated poses, the flowing layered robes, and the integration of calligraphic text with figures.
