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運筆画帖

滝和亭 著 · 1893 · 田口治三郎 · 29 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book of brush-painting models, written by Taki Kazutei and published by Taguchi Jisaburō in 1893 for students learning ink brush technique. The pictures are ink-brush sketches of orchids and grass-like leaves drawn in sweeping single strokes, with tapering blades and dry-brush shading, offering a designer examples of gestural line, negative space and asymmetric placement.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library