三拾六歌仙貝合画譜
A Japanese ehon picture book of shells, published in 1841 and credited to Nishimura Byakuan, with its images made for connoisseurs of shell collecting and natural history. Its hand-coloured drawings of bivalves and cockles are rendered in fine ink outlines with soft washes of ochre and grey on warm paper, offering a designer clear, spare studies of ribbed and fanned forms.
