浅井忠画帖
Asai Chū's sketchbook, a Japanese ehon picture album of his painted studies, likely made by the artist himself for personal study and viewing. The pictures are soft watercolour landscapes in warm ochre and brown washes: a ferry boat with passengers and a cart crossing a river, a thatched farmhouse beside a bare tree, and wide flat fields with geese. A designer might take their loose wash handling, muted earth palette and open horizon compositions as a model for atmospheric backgrounds.
