Hakkakujō
A privately printed Kyoto catalogue of East Asian art from 1907, compiled by Kanō Jihē, presenting the author's own collection of paintings, pottery and jade. The two plates are tonal reproductions on cream paper: the first shows a tall blue-and-white porcelain vase with a flared neck and lobed body, the second shows three jade or stone objects, a square-sided box, a cylindrical jar and a small dish. A designer might take from them the restrained contrast of cobalt pattern on white and the soft grey-brown tonal shading of carved stone.
