常信花鳥画譜
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) of 1893, published by Aoki Sūzandō and reproducing flower-and-bird paintings in reduced copies by Fukui Gessai for a general audience of artists and collectors. The pictures are ink landscapes and bird-and-plant studies with sparse brushwork, open white ground, and seals and inscriptions in the margins, offering a designer ideas about economical line, negative space, and the placement of a small motif in a large empty field.
