絵本福寿草
An 18th-century Japanese picture book (ehon) compiled by Ōoka Shunboku and illustrated by Ōoka Shunsen, published in 1755 by Asano Yahei and partner for a general readership interested in flowers and plants. Its pages show flowering plants drawn in fine black outline on tinted paper, each labelled with Japanese kana and a month, with sparse cloud motifs and red seal stamps; a designer might borrow the economical line drawing, the botanical arrangement of stems and leaves, and the calligraphic labelling.
