The Moving Brush in "Rough" Painting (Unpitsu soga) : [volume 2]
The Moving Brush in Rough Painting, volume 2, is a Japanese woodblock-printed painting manual by Tachibana Morikuni, published in 1749 in Osaka and Edo for amateur and student painters learning ink sketching. Its pages show loosely brushed ink studies of birds, plants, bamboo and riverside landscapes, with the brushwork left visible and the paper largely bare. A designer could take from them the economy of single-stroke ink drawing, with pale grey wash suggesting mist and space around a few decisive black forms.
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