地口絵本
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book of jiguchi-e, comic pictures that pun on the sounds of names and phrases, compiled by Seki Yuzo and published by him in 1886. Each page pairs a round vignette with a rectangular panel and handwritten kana captions, with figures in simple black-line woodblock style. A designer could borrow its playful word-image puns, its compact split-panel page layout, and its bold, economical linework.
