毛筆花鳥画帖 : 彩色練習
A Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture book of bird and flower studies, compiled by the Kotō Educational Association and published by Seirindō in 1897 as a brush-painting and colour practice manual for students. The four pictures show songbirds perched on bare branches in woodblock-printed line drawings, with some plates in soft tonal shading and a few Japanese captions beside them. A designer could take their economical contour lines and single-perch compositions as a model for simple, uncluttered bird illustration.
