Chaki meikeihen
Chaki meikeihen is a Japanese illustrated reference from 1838 by Tominaga Nangai, 1774-1854, cataloguing tea ceremony utensils and vessels for connoisseurs and practitioners of chanoyu. The pages show flower vases and tea jars drawn as flat outlines with brief annotations of height, mouth width and body width in Japanese script. A designer could take their clean, measured line drawings, plain tinted fills and dense vertical text columns as a model for simple product diagrams and typographic layouts.
