椿山画譜 ２
A Japanese ehon picture book, the second volume of the Chinzan gafu, drawn by Chinzan and compiled by Yoshikawa Hanshichi, published in Tokyo in 1900 for students of brush painting. The pictures are monochrome ink studies of plants, fungi and insects, printed as woodblock-style reproductions with red seal stamps. A designer might take from them the economy of tonal wash, where a few dark masses and pale highlights define a leaf, mushroom or caterpillar against empty paper.
