Picture Album of People with Kyōka (Light Verse) (Kyōka shiki jinbutsu 狂歌四季人物)
A Japanese woodblock picture album from 1855 by Andō Hiroshige, pairing colour prints of everyday figures with kyōka light verse written in columns beside them. The spreads show seasonal and domestic scenes meant for a general reading audience. For a designer, the pages offer a clear model of combining small coloured figures with dense vertical calligraphic text, with generous margins and a restrained palette of blue, pink and ochre.
