画本窮理物語 3編
A Meiji-era Japanese illustrated primer on natural philosophy, compiled and translated by Okada Tomoji (Tokoro Tōenrō Shujin) and published in 1872 by Hakubundō, aimed at general readers and young learners. Its pictures are crisp black-line woodblock drawings with hatched shading, showing a kneeling woman with a ball on a string, a hand swinging a weighted cord, a globe lit by half-shadow with tiny figures and arrows around it, and a camera obscura-style box projecting an image to a standing observer; a designer could borrow the clean diagrammatic linework and the mix of everyday figures with scientific apparatus.
