人物画譜
A Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) of 1891 compiled by Ikkōsai and published by Meishindō, offering model figure drawings of people for artists and craftsmen to copy. The pages show groups of figures in robes, scholars, poets and monks, drawn in clean black outline with a few inscribed labels and no shading. A designer could take from them the economical contour line and the poses and costume folds of Japanese figure drawing.
