絵本忘草 3巻
This is a Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) from the Edo period, with title 絵本忘草 in three volumes, showing plants drawn in ink line with pale colour washes. The pictures are botanical studies of flowering plants and grasses on plain paper, with Japanese captions beside them, useful for designers wanting clean stylised plant motifs with fine linework and sparse, airy composition.
