玉泉習画帖 簡易科 1
Mochizuki Gyokusen wrote and drew this Japanese drawing primer of 1892, published by Tanaka Jihei in Tokyo for beginning learners of sketching. The pictures are plain black ink strokes, spokes radiating from a centre point, crossing lines and single diagonal strokes, a designer could take from them a sense of basic line exercises, radiating gesture marks and simple geometric construction in the manner of a teaching sheet.
