花鳥画譜 上
A Japanese ehon picture book of flower-and-bird studies, compiled by Shinbei Shibata and published by Shunpūdō in 1880, meant as a model album for painters and craftsmen. Its woodblock pages show single birds perched on blossoming branches, pine boughs, reeds and rocks, drawn with bold black silhouettes against open white ground and sparse ink-wash lines, giving a designer clear examples of asymmetric placement and negative space.
