名数画譜 天,地,人
A Japanese ehon picture book of 1800 compiled by Ōhara Tōya, a woodblock printed manual of landscape models in the Chinese-derived ink style for artists and readers. Its pages show misty mountains, twisted pines, willows, thatched huts and boats drawn in fine ink lines with a few seal stamps and calligraphic inscriptions. A designer could take from them the economical brush-line shorthand for rock, foliage and water, and the open negative space that gives these scenes their quiet depth.
