Lobster Yellow Kimbei and period colour are reproduced

and period colour are reproduced with full sharpness and clarity

each leaflet rendered with meticulous precision

even where the imagery is most ambiguous

Shot during the Meiji era

contour line

Lobster Yellow Kimbei and period colour are reproducedLobster Yellow is a striking vintage natural history illustration rendered in a bold, high contrast style. The subject a lobster depicted in a warm, saturated yellow against a plain ground sits between scientific plate and graphic statement. The composition is clean and frontal, presenting the animal with the unselfconscious directness of nineteenth century zoological illustration. Segmented forms, delicate antennae, and articulated limbs are drawn