小学日本画帖 ４
A Meiji-era Japanese picture primer of ink-brush studies, published in 1900 by Saikinsha with paintings by Fukada Naoki for school students learning to draw. The pictures are bold black brush strokes on white: a palm frond over low grass, a clustered leafy branch with a bird, a set of sweeping arcing strokes, and bare twigs with a rough blotted edge. A designer can take from them the economy of single-stroke brushwork and the way blank paper carries the form.
