潜竜堂画譜 ４ 人物之部，５ 草花虫之部
A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) published in 1882 by Matsuzaki Hanzo, compiled by Takizawa Kiyoshi, with volumes on human figures and on grasses, flowers and insects. The pages are arranged as framed vignettes with brief kana and kanji captions beside each motif. A designer could draw on its clean, economical line work, the sparing use of ground lines and grass tufts, and the way single figures and small creatures sit in open white space.
