Seihō Album of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (Seihō jūnishi jō)
An album of twelve zodiac animal paintings by the Japanese painter Takeuchi Seihō, published in 1905 in Japan as a Meiji-era picture book. The pictures are ink and light colour on paper, with a hare, tiger, sheep and a tortoise-like animal shown in loose brushwork. A designer could take from them the economy of wash and the open negative space around single animals, which suit calm editorial or packaging layouts.
