Banpō zensho : Volume 11
Banpō zensho, volume 11, is a Japanese woodblock-printed reference compendium published in 1770 in Edo and Osaka by three publishers, covering antiquities of Japan and China. The pages are dense columns of Chinese-style characters arranged in tables and lists, with some small line drawings of objects and architecture. A designer might take the strict grid of vertical text columns, the ruled cell boxes, and the sparse woodcut diagrams as models for layout and information structure.
