文林画譜 ４
A Meiji-era Japanese picture manual titled Bunrin Gafu volume 4, written by Sano Motoyasu and published in 1883 by Watanabe Teikichi, one of the ehon pattern books made for artists and craftsmen to copy. The pictures are monochrome woodblock prints of insects, plants and small birds, each with brief calligraphic inscriptions beside it. A designer can take from them the economical line work of hand-carved blocks, the open spacing of single motifs on blank paper, and the stylised rendering of grasses and insects.
