Some pretty great 18th- and 19th-century Japanese book titles for your perusal:
New Brothel Girls' Illustrated Encyclopaedia (Shinzo zue), Santo Kyoden
Pushing Trends to Extremes or Useless Vogues (Muda iki), Koikawa Harumachi
Correcting Errors about the Dutch (Ransetsu benwaku), Otsuki Gentaku
Dutch Shadow Pictures: What Fun! (Oranda kage-e otsuriki), Jippensha Ikku
Trendy Goblin (Tengu tsu)
From: Screech, Timon. "Machinery for pictures." Pp. 94-133, 269-274 in The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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