一筆画譜 初編
A Japanese picture book (ehon) titled Ichihitsu Gafu, first volume, compiled by Tani Sotaro and published in 1881 by Matsuda Bunshodo, a manual of single-brushstroke sketches for amateur painters. Its pictures are black-and-white woodblock-printed plates of plants, birds and insects drawn with sparse, flowing lines and dark ink masses, a model for designers wanting economical gestural silhouettes and the placement of motifs against open white space.
