初学画本 : 指要解説 第1
A Meiji-era Japanese drawing primer titled 初学画本 (First Study Drawing Book), compiled by Hirase Sakugoro and published in 1889 by Keigyosha in Tokyo for beginning art students. The pictures are plain line diagrams: a title block in heavy carved characters, a row of numbered vertical rules, and a circle with hatched shading and lettered points, which a designer might take as a model for simple instructional line work and labeled schematic layouts.
