画本窮理物語 2編
A Meiji-era Japanese illustrated science primer, the second volume of a popular popular-science series compiled and translated by Okada Tomoharu and published by Hakubundo in 1872 for general readers learning natural philosophy. Its pictures are simple black-and-white woodblock diagrams: comet orbits drawn as dotted curves over a starfield, a light-ray lens diagram, a pine-clad mountain scene with a seated figure, and a wall with a rope and pulley. A designer could draw on the spare line diagrams, dotted trajectories and clean labelled schematics for explanatory graphics.
