Banpō zensho : Volume 1
Banpō zensho, volume 1, a Japanese illustrated reference book printed in 1770 in Edo and Osaka by several publishers, covering antiquities of Japan and China. The pages are mostly dense columns of Japanese text, with seal stamps and small ink sketches of vessels, a landscape, and figures set among the writing. A designer might take from them the rhythm of dense vertical columns of calligraphic text broken by stamp motifs and simple brush drawings, a restrained monochrome vocabulary for editorial layouts.
