花鳥画譜 第1帖
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book of bird-and-flower paintings, published in 1887 by Hakubun Honsha and written by Taki Kazutei, intended as a model album for artists and students. The pictures are monochrome woodblock reproductions of brush painting: sparse ink lines, bare branches, and birds set against open white ground, with a few seals in the corners. A designer might take its economical composition, where a single perched bird and a cropped branch fill an asymmetrical field, and its calligraphic line quality.
