明星画譜
Meiseki gafu, a Japanese picture book compiled by Yosano Tekkan (Kan) in 1901, presumably for a general Japanese readership interested in the modern woodcut and illustration of the time. The four pictures are black-and-white woodcut-style prints with bold black masses, white line work and framed compositions, one showing a woman seen from behind against a pale sky, one a crowded tea-house or theatre interior, and one a street scene with a dark tree and a building, so a designer could take strong figure-ground contrast and simplified, flattened forms from them.
