和楽堂画譜
A Japanese ehon picture album titled Wakudō Gafu, drawn by Noguchi Yūkoku and published in 1899 by its own publishing house, offering model paintings for students of Japanese brush painting. The four plates show pines twisting over rocks, a pheasant perched among flowering branches, and a bird on a rock under willow-like foliage, all in fine ink line with sparse wash and small calligraphic inscriptions in the margins. A designer could take economical brushwork, tangled pine silhouettes, and the open negative space typical of ink landscape compositions.
