聚鳥画譜 天
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book of birds (ehon) published in 1885 by Kinkadō, drawn by Numata Kafune for a general audience of artists and collectors. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock prints of single birds perched on flowering or leafy branches, set against open white ground with a few cut-off edges and Japanese captions. A designer could take their economical line, the spare placement of a bird on a diagonal branch, and the use of silhouetted dark leaves against white.
