The Seikō Album (Seikō jō); The Nanpo Album (Nanpo jō)
The Seikō Album and Nanpo Album is a Japanese picture album compiled by Nagayama Koin in 1824, a collection of woodblock-printed and brush-drawn sketches. Its first picture is a cover with bold calligraphic title characters, and the other pictures show a seated figure and a costumed woman in patterned robes. A designer might take from them the economy of ink-line drawing, bold black calligraphic strokes, and the lattice and fan-like patterns of printed textiles.
