考古画譜 首巻
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in Tokyo in 1901 by the Imperial Household Museum, compiled by Kurokawa Harumura with Furukawa Miyuki and Kurokawa Masayori, and aimed at readers of antiquarian and historical pictures. Its woodblock-style pages show a rocky mountain path among trees with monks, a procession of travellers with a robed figure and attendants on a road, a seated court noble in patterned robes, and a group of people in patterned costume with a kneeling attendant; a designer could draw on the fine, dense line work, patterned textiles and crisp black-and-white contrast.
