Bo Hakushaku-ke onshozohin nyusatsu
This is a 1913 Osaka auction catalogue, published by the Osaka Bijutsu Kurabu for prospective buyers of the Hakushaku collection, and it was once owned by collector Charles Lang Freer. The plates are black-and-white photographs of Chinese and Japanese hanging scrolls, showing calligraphy panels and a landscape painting with mountains, trees and mist. A designer could take from them the tonal range of ink on paper, the vertical scroll format, and the cropped, framed compositions.
