狩野常信花鳥画譜 後編
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) published in 1895 by Aoki Sūzandō, reproducing bird-and-flower paintings in the manner of the Kano school master Kano Tsunenobu, traced and compiled by Fukui Gessai for artists and craftsmen. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock reproductions of single birds in flight or perched among grasses, pine, iris, chrysanthemum and water, with generous empty space and dark ink masses set against fine brushlines, a compact model of composition a designer could borrow for asymmetric layouts and negative space.
