Picture Album of Birds and Flowers (Kachō gafu)
Picture Album of Birds and Flowers (Kachō gafu) is a Japanese illustrated album of birds and flowers drawn by Watanabe Seitei and published in Tokyo by Ōkura Shoten in 1903, made as a pictorial reference book. The pages are spare ink and light colour studies of single birds set against open blank paper, with a few sprigs of leaves and branches. A designer might take from them the economy of negative space, the simple placement of one subject on a page, and the sharp contour line of the birds.
