絵本福寿草 中末之巻
An 18th-century Japanese ehon picture book compiled by Ōoka Shunboku and illustrated by Ōoka Shunsen, issued for a general readership to teach plant identification. The pictures are fine black-line woodblock drawings of single flowering plants on pale paper, with calligraphic labels and seasonal month notes beside them; a designer could take their economical contour line, open spacing, and flowing stems as a model for botanical line art.
