絵本新作一口咄
A Japanese ehon picture book printed in 1885 by Hiyoshidō, a woodblock-style book of comic one-line anecdotes (ikkuchi-banashi) set in domestic and street scenes. Its pictures show townspeople in kimono with vertical columns of hand-lettered text beside them, and a designer might take from them the economical line work, lively figure poses, and the way speech is set in vertical calligraphic columns beside the image.
