美術画譜 : 花鳥山水
A Japanese ehon picture book of 1890, published by Kunshidō, offering model drawings of flowers, birds, mountain landscapes and figures for artists and craftsmen to copy. Its pages are woodblock-printed with circular and rectangular vignettes, many showing branches with blossoms, perched songbirds, a rider on a rooster, and a misty peak. A designer can take from them the compact framing of single motifs within circles and panels, and the economical line used to suggest feathers, petals and bark.
