Koetsu utaibon hyakuban
Koetsu utaibon hyakuban is a Japanese illustrated book of utaibon, song-text booklets, produced around 1600 and associated with the Kyoto calligrapher and designer Hon'ami Koetsu, held by the Smithsonian Libraries. The cover shows a pale, stencil-like sprig of leaves across a grey-beige ground with a gold-brown title label at left, a restrained tonal design a designer could use for minimalist botanical layouts with a single label panel.
