省亭花鳥画譜 ２之巻
A Japanese ehon picture album of flower and bird studies, drawn by Watanabe Seitei and published in Tokyo in 1891 by Okura Magobei for a general audience of painting students. The pages show loose woodblock-printed botanical studies in which sprigs, leaves and blossoms are set against open white ground, with some plates shaded in heavy black ink and others in fine outline; a designer could take from them the economy of asymmetric placement and the use of empty space around a single motif.
