新選文林画譜 蘭
A Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture manual on orchids (蘭), published in 1892 by Sekizenkan under the name Suzuki Seikei, a painting-instruction book for amateur students of ink painting. The pages show sparse brush-drawn orchid sprigs with long arching leaves, thin flower stems and calligraphic inscriptions beside them, and a designer could take from them the economy of single-stroke line, generous empty space and the integration of text and image on the page.
