呉昌碩画譜
A Japanese-published picture book of 1920 from Bunkyūdō Shoten in Tokyo, compiled by its bookshop staff, reproducing the hanging scroll paintings of the Chinese artist Wu Changshuo. The pictures are monochrome reproductions of ink flower and branch paintings, with handwritten colophons and seal impressions beside the images. A designer might take the loose, expressive brushwork, the dense black ink masses set against open paper, and the calligraphic inscriptions as a model for bold asymmetric composition.
