画本錦之嚢
Gaisai Eisen drew this Japanese picture book (ehon), printed in 1828 by Kawachiya Mogobee for a general readership of artists and craftsmen. The pictures are monochrome woodblock prints with light colour washes, showing sketches of flowers, leaves, birds, and small landscapes arranged in framed panels on pale paper. A designer could take from them the economical outline drawing and the way motifs such as chrysanthemums, irises, and grasses are reduced to simple shapes and repeated across a page.
