山水畫帖
This is a Japanese picture book (ehon) of landscape prints, published in 1835 by the Kōgetsudō firm, the publisher Kōgetsudō Bunsuke, for a general readership of print collectors. The pictures are woodblock prints of thatched villages, misty mountains and Mount Fuji rendered in flat areas of green, blue and rust with fine linework. A designer could take from them the economy of layered planes, pale sky bands and the way small houses and trees anchor a wide landscape.
