New Ideas for Designs (Shin’an ishō chigozakura)
A Japanese pattern book published in Kyoto in 1890 by the publisher Tanaka Jihei, printed in black woodblock line with text in Japanese and Chinese characters. Its pages show technical drawings of metalwork and craft objects, including a tea kettle, sword guard, tassels and a cage-like grid, plus a motif of a moth-like insect, set out as plan and elevation diagrams for makers and designers to follow. A designer might take its clean, measured diagram layouts and its geometric and floral motifs as a model for ornament arranged in simple outline.
