絵本顔尽し落噺
An Edo-period Japanese picture book (ehon) by author Akatsuki Kanesei and illustrator Urakawa Ikkyo, published by Kawachiya Heishichi, with comic woodblock portraits of men's faces in exaggerated expressions. The pictures show bald and topknotted heads in close-up, with wrinkled brows, gritted teeth and pursed mouths, set beside columns of hand-written kana text. A designer could take the caricatured expressions, bold ink contours and simple hatched kimono patterns as models for character faces and humorous poses.
