聚鳥画譜 地
This Meiji-era Japanese picture book, Shūchō Gafu, was written and published in 1890 by Numata Kabun's circle at Kinkadō in Tokyo for a readership of artists and collectors of bird painting. Its woodblock-printed pages show birds perched among blossoms, willow, and branches in sparse black line with open white ground. A designer can borrow its economical composition, placing a single bird on a diagonal branch with large areas of empty paper around it.
