Poems on Portraits of the Famous and the Infamous (Kyōka kijin gazō-shū)
A Japanese woodblock-printed book of kyoka comic verse, illustrated by Utagawa Toyokuni in the early nineteenth century, pairing double-page portraits of famous and notorious figures with poems. The pictures show stylised warriors, courtesans, and comic character types in fine black ink line on paper, with the poems set in columns beside each figure, offering a designer a clear model for dense caricature layouts and calligraphic text integrated into image space.
