景年花鳥画譜 秋之部
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book of bird-and-flower studies, published in 1892 by Nishimura Sōzaemon and drawn by Imao Keinen, aimed at painters and craft students learning how to draw birds and plants. The pages are black-ink line drawings on paper, showing a hawk-like bird of prey perched on a branch, quail in grass, small songbirds among leaves, and magpie-like birds beside maple sprigs. A designer could take from them the economical contour line, the way fine foliage is built up from simple strokes, and the layouts of birds set against sparse branches and empty ground.
