The plates for Sagabon were made not by combining pieces of type one letter at a time, but by combining wooden movable type in units of several letters of 2 or 3 that copied the vertical and cursive style of Koetsu's writing.
嵯峨本は一文字一文字の活字を組み合わせるのではなく、光悦が書いた縦書き、崩し字の文字を数字（2-3字など）単位で木活字に作り、組み合わせて製版していた。