Garden of Cursive Drawings (Ryakuga-en)
Garden of Cursive Drawings is a Japanese woodblock picture book by Kitao Masayoshi, published in 1823 for general readers and sketch copyists. Its pages show quick, hand-coloured figures of townspeople and labourers, with small captions beside each, and a designer could draw on their loose, economical gesture and flat washes of colour for stylised figure studies.
