Customs of the Eastern Capital (Edo) (Azuma no teburi あづまの手ぶり)
Azuma no teburi is a woodblock-printed Japanese book of customs of Edo, compiled by Ōnishi Chin'nen and published in 1829 by Kobayashi Shinbei and Ōsakya Genbei for a general urban readership. Its double-page spreads show townspeople going about everyday life, such as walking in snowy gardens, children playing, and figures sheltering under umbrellas in rain, drawn in spare black outlines with pale washes of colour. A designer could take from them the economy of a single confident contour line, the layered spacing of figures across a page, and the use of blank paper to suggest weather and light.
