春渓画譜
A Japanese picture book (ehon) by the painter Mori Shunkei, published in 1905 by Murakami Kanbei, offering model sketches of insects and plants for artists and craftsmen to copy. The pictures are monochrome woodblock-style prints of grasshoppers, dragonflies and crickets among leaves, flowers and rocks, with a sparse, tonal ink-wash look. A designer might take their economical placement of a single insect against dark leaf masses and open white ground as a compositional lesson.
