若冲画譜
Ito Jakuchu's Japanese picture album of 1899, published in Tokyo by Gyokumeikan as a reference collection of Japanese painting for artists and collectors. The pictures are reproduced from woodblock-style prints of Jakuchu's paintings: a flight of birds over bamboo, a winding stream beside chrysanthemums and rock, dense peony blossoms, and fish in water. A designer could draw on their dense, patterned compositions, tonal contrast of black and white, and the way natural motifs are stacked and cropped across the page.
