浮世絵手本 明治２０年３月
A Japanese woodblock-printed ehon, a pattern book compiled by Sawa Kyujiro and published in Tokyo in 1887 for artists and students copying Japanese brush-style motifs. The pictures are monochrome line drawings of flowering branches, reeds, a crane in a circular frame, a rocky landscape with a bridge, a stalk of blossom and a cluster of berries with an insect. A designer could take from them the economical contour line, the framing of motifs in panels and roundels, and the spare use of empty ground.
