省亭花鳥画譜 １之巻
Shotei Watanabe's 1891 Japanese flower-and-bird picture album (Shotei kachō gafu, vol. 1), published by Ōkura Magobei, is a woodblock-era ehon meant for artists and general readers in Meiji Japan. Its pictures are bold black silhouetted birds and loose sprays of branches, leaves and grasses set against open white paper, a strong model for graphic designers working with negative space and simplified silhouette.
