四君子画譜 坤
A Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture manual of the Four Gentlemen plants, the orchid, bamboo, plum and chrysanthemum, painted and published by Inoue Katsugorō in 1884 for artists and students of brush painting. The pictures are black-and-white woodblock prints of sparse orchid leaves and stalks, and clusters of chrysanthemum blooms with loose petals, showing how a few confident ink strokes can suggest a whole plant and how to use open white space around a subject.
