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Ōyō Sketchbook (Ōyō manga) : [volume 2]

Ogino, Issui · 1903 · Kyoto : Yamada Unsōdō 山田芸艸堂 · 18 pictures

Ōyō Sketchbook, volume 2, is a Japanese pattern-book of plant designs drawn by Ogino Issui and printed in Kyoto in 1903 by Yamada Unsōdō for artists and craftsmen. Its pictures are flat woodblock-style compositions of morning glories, bellflowers, clover and water plants in cream, indigo and muted grey, with stylized leaves and repeated stripes a designer could adapt into surface patterns, textiles or stencil motifs.

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