Seikei Zusetsu is a book containing agricultural woodcuts from early 1804 and created in Japan in 1793 by unknown artists in Japan. This image is from wikimedia commons. I edited this image slightly, cropping for a narrower page border to emphasize the image better. I find these images very compelling, combining some things I love to look at - Japanese art, 19th century book engravings (technically these were end of 18th century), botanical art, and history of agriculture and horticulture. This is an image of corn, a crop originally developed in Mesoamerica (I guess millennia before Maya, let alone Aztec empires), and spread around the rest of the world as part of the post-Columbian exchange. I chose this image because now is corn harvesting time.
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