八種画譜
A Japanese ehon picture manual of 1891 published by Iroha Shobo, with brushwork plates by the painter Bunkatei Shujin for students of ink painting. The plates are black line drawings of trees, rocks, mountains and grass, each labelled with a short caption in Chinese characters. A designer could take from them the economical contour strokes and tufted texture marks used to build natural forms.
