文濤習画帖 １
A Japanese ehon drawing manual compiled and brushed by Oka Buntō and published in 1909 by Wakabayashi Shigeichirō and others, aimed at students learning brush painting. The four pictures are bold sumi-ink studies of single botanical motifs (a bamboo-like leaf, a drooping blossom cluster, a pine cone on a slanted branch, and a forked twig with budding tips), with rough, uneven brush edges and unfilled white ground. A designer could take the economy of shape, the dry-brush texture, and the asymmetric placement of a single motif on blank paper.
