画本窮理物語 初編
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) titled 画本窮理物語 first volume, compiled and translated by Okada Tomoji under the pen name Tōkōrō Shujin, published by Hakubundō in 1872 for general readers learning natural philosophy. Its pictures are black-and-white woodblock-style line drawings with dense hatching, showing domestic interiors, a man writing at a desk, a pine tree in wind, and a rainstorm scene, offering a designer clean linework, stylised rain and foliage patterns, and mixed Japanese and Western-style architecture.
