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A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) of landscape and figure studies, drawn by Tanomura Chikuden and compiled by Izawa Yasuji in 1879 and published in Tokyo by Niwa Komakichi for artists and students of painting. Its pages show woodblock-printed ink views of trees, hills, fences and rice fields, with a seated figure under pine boughs, offering a designer sparse, economical line work and a clear sense of how a few strokes can suggest depth and atmosphere.
