Hippu zukai : buk no maki
A Japanese military treatise from 1710 by Arisawa Takesada, printed in Japan and aimed at military students and strategists. Its pictures are hand-coloured woodblock-style diagrams: ink and wash landscapes of pines, hills and forest, plus schematic troop-formation plans marked with red and black dots and labels. A designer could take its sparse washes, red circular markers and dotted grid layouts as a clear model for simple diagrammatic information graphics.
