Seitei kachōjō
Seitei kachōjō is a Japanese picture album of birds and plants by Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918), published in Kyoto and Tokyo by Unsōdō in 1889 for artists and print buyers. Its pages are colour woodblock prints with soft gradient skies and a blank facing page, showing small birds perched on branches among leaves, gourds and vines. A designer could take from them a sparse, asymmetrical layout with generous empty space and a quiet palette of pale blue and peach.
