Encyclopedia of Western Art (Kōmō zatsuwa 紅毛雑話) : [volume 1]
Kōmō zatsuwa is a woodblock-printed Japanese encyclopedic volume by Morishima Chūryō, published in Edo in 1787 by Suharaya Ichibei, describing Western objects and customs for Japanese readers. The two pictures are plain black-line woodcuts with Japanese captions beside them: a shuttlecock with a feathered head and cork base beside a racket, and a balloon-shaped airship with a sail and rigging over a small boat. A designer might take from them the economy of simple outline drawing and the way explanatory text is set in tight columns beside the image.
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![Picture 2 of 2 from Encyclopedia of Western Art (Kōmō zatsuwa 紅毛雑話) : [volume 1] (1787), leaf 27](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_1724-27-1.webp)