玉泉習画帖 亀
A Meiji-era Japanese drawing manual (ehon) by the painter Mochizuki Gyokusen, published in 1891 by Tanaka Jihei, offering pictorial models for students of painting. The pictures are monochrome ink-style studies of branches, blossoms and small creatures, with loose brushy outlines and open white ground, showing how a few strokes can suggest plum twigs, a bird on a branch, a flower and a snail. A designer might borrow the economy of line and the sparse, asymmetrical placement of motifs on the page.
