楳嶺画譜 第２編 花鳥之部
A Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture book of flower-and-bird studies, drawn by Kono Baire and published in 1886 by Sasada Yahei and partners in Kyoto for artists and craftsmen. The four pictures are woodblock-printed monochrome bird scenes: a magpie-like bird flying past a tree, a pair of small birds on a bank, a diving bird among reeds and water, and a dark crow beside slender sapling trees, with sparse ink lines suggesting water and ground. A designer could take economical brushwork, open negative space and the way a single bird is set against foliage or water.
