From Geography to Color Theory, Page Through a Rare Archive of Centuries-Old Japanese Textbooks

Color printing techniques have been used for centuries in Japan, from monochrome prints that were hand-colored to nishiki-e, or “brocade pictures,” in which a number of woodblocks forming separate parts of the image could be printed using different hues. Publishers relied on these methods until the early 1900s, when modern techniques like CYMK created multicolor impressions.

National Institute for Educational Policy Research, a trove of incredible textbooks spans the mid-1800s to the 1940s. More

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