浄瑠璃二百段集 上巻 朝顔日記 他４２編
A Japanese illustrated book of joruri puppet-theatre texts, compiled by Tengu Rōshujin and published in 1909 by Tachikawa Bunmeidō in Japan. Its first picture is a title page with a fan, a cloud-like motif and a dark pine silhouette, and the second is a printed page of columns with a vertical block of text and small furigana, suggesting a reader's edition rather than a picture book. A designer might take the bold ink silhouette, the asymmetric placement of a single motif on a pale ground, and the vertical Japanese lettering as a graphic layout.
