景年習画帖 第6
A Japanese ehon drawing manual, volume 6 of Imao Keinen's Keinen sketching album, published in 1905 by Yamada Unsōdō in Kyoto for students learning brush painting. The four pictures show bare winter trees with perched birds, dark conifers in silhouette, a sparrow beside bamboo leaves, and a leaning pine, all rendered in bold black ink strokes and stamps. A designer could take their economical negative-space silhouettes, the sharp contrast of inked masses against empty white ground, and the simplified botanical shapes.
