対山画譜
A Japanese ehon picture book of landscape sketches compiled by Imai Hoji's editor Izawa Yasuji and published in Japan in 1882 by Murata Yujiro, likely for painters and students learning brush technique. The pictures show misty mountains, bamboo and reed clusters, pine-covered hills, and small rooftops in terraced fields, drawn in loose ink strokes with handwritten calligraphic notes beside them. A designer could take the economical brushwork, the tonal layering of distant ridges, and the sparse negative space as models for minimal landscape imagery.
