頓智の蜀山人
A 1924 Japanese picture book published by Seiyodo and written by Rikō Sanjin, a Japanese comic tale about the poet Shokusanjin with its pages printed in ink. The first picture shows a seated bald man with a cup and a second figure beside a sake jar beneath columns of vertical kana text, with a gray wash, and the cover shows a large grinning mask-like face against black vertical stripes, which suggests bold figure-ground contrast and a lively cover layout a designer could borrow.
