孤村繪手本
Gukei's Kosonkai Ehon is a Japanese picture book of ink-and-wash plant studies, issued in Japan as a model album for students of painting. The pictures show plum blossom, magnolia, a peony-like rose and bamboo drawn in pale grey wash on a warm buff ground, with sparse brushwork and open space. A designer could take the economical branch outlines, the blank space around single blossoms, and the grey-on-cream tonal palette as a restrained botanical reference.
