景年習画帖 第1
A Japanese drawing manual (ehon) by Imao Keinen, published in 1905 by Yamada Unsōdō, offering model sketches for students of painting. The pictures are monochrome black-ink plant studies, with ink-blot silhouettes of leaves, branches, and fruit set on white ground and a red seal in one corner. A designer might borrow their loose, shorthand economy: dark masses of leaf shapes against open space, and the sharp tapering of stems and thorns.
