応挙聚美画譜
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Aoki Tsunesaburo and published by him in 1892, reproducing paintings by the Maruyama-Shijo artist Maruyama Okyo for a general audience of painters and collectors. The pictures are monochrome woodblock-style reproductions: a black ink dragon emerging from dark rock, a misty waterfall and cliff landscape, a crane at the water's edge beneath a pale sun, and two puppies beside a flowering vine. A designer might take their bold negative-space contrast in the rock and dragon, and the economical brushwork that suggests weather and mass with few marks.
