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春挙画譜 巻1,3

山元春挙 画 · 1901 · 山田芸艸堂 · 26 pictures

A Japanese ehon picture manual of 1901 published by Yamada Unsodo, compiled from drawings by Yamamoto Shunkyo for students of painting. The pages show ink landscapes with sparse brushwork, where bare trees, rock faces and mist are left as open white space. A designer could take from them the economy of negative space and the diagonal weight of a tree or cliff pushed to one edge of the frame.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library