Shūga Hyakudai (Shūga hyakudai 習画百題) : [volume 3 of five]

Kawabata, Gyokushō, 1842-1913 · 1898 · Tokyo : Yoshikawa Hanshichi · 4 pictures

Shūga Hyakudai is a Meiji-period Japanese instruction manual in painting, volume three of five, made by the painter Kawabata Gyokushō and published in Tokyo in 1898 by Yoshikawa Hanshichi as a practice guide for students. The pictures are ink-and-wash studies of plants and branches on pale paper, with touches of pink and grey, showing brush stroke, leaf structure and the layering of tone that a designer could study for loose botanical sketching.

Painting -- Technique · Teaching -- Aids and devices

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