不如帰画譜
A 1911 Japanese illustrated book (ehon) published by Sakura Shobo, with text by Tokutomi Roka and pictures by Nakazawa Hiromitsu, a graphic record of a novel. The four pictures are loose, sketchy ink figure studies on pale paper: a robed figure beside a chair, a seated figure seen from behind, a standing figure with a small plant and a dark floating bar, and a figure in a wide hat by a low horizon line. A designer could take their economical line and open negative space as a model for minimal figure drawing.
