絵本長生殿
An illustrated picture book (ehon) by Katsushika Hokusai, printed in Japan for a general readership, probably in the early nineteenth century. Its pages show elegant women, musicians and a samurai in colour woodblock prints framed by vertical lines of calligraphic text. A designer could take its loose, airy compositions, flat colour fields and calligraphy set beside figures as a model for layout.
