絵本手引草
An 1880 Japanese ehon picture book with illustrations by Ichiryusai Hiroshige, published by Kaneda Senkichi, showing plants, flowers and a fish in woodblock-printed line drawings. The pages depict chrysanthemums, wisteria, cherry blossoms, rapeseed flowers and a sea bream, with Japanese captions in the margins. A designer could take from them the economical outline botanicals with sparse shading and the clean, decorative arrangement of single specimens on a page.
