文林画譜 ３
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) of 1883, compiled by the Japanese artist Sano Motoyasu and published by Watanabe Teikichi, showing flowering plants and birds in ink line. The pictures are simple woodblock-printed brush-style sketches of plum, peony, orchid and lily with sparse calligraphic inscriptions and seals, which a designer might take as models for economical botanical line drawing, asymmetric corner compositions, and open white space.
