華香画譜 第１巻
A Meiji-era Japanese picture manual (ehon) of 1903 by the painter Toji Kako, arranged by Yamada Naosaburo and published by Yamada Geisodo in Japan for artists and students of brush painting. The four pictures are ink-wash landscapes with pine trees, a misty ground plane and a rocky outcrop, reproduced in tonal halftone that shows soft gradients between dark brushed masses and pale washed sky. A designer could take from them the economy of negative space, the loose calligraphic edge of dark foliage, and the atmospheric fading of distant forms.
