Ejima no kasumi : ao
A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book printed in Kyoto in 1887 by Tanaka Jihē, with illustrations credited to Kubota Beisen and Tomioka Tessai. The pages show black ink line drawings with a few light washes, framed by ruled borders with columns of calligraphy beside them. A designer could take from them the economical contour line of brush-drawn figures, trees and rushing water, and the way a single figure or branch is set against a largely empty page.
