Mountains of the Heart (Kyōchūzan 胸中山)
A Japanese woodblock-printed album of landscape sketches by the Edo painter Kameda Bōsai, published in Edo in 1816 by the bookseller Suharaya Shinbei, intended for amateur painters and collectors of literati-style scenery. Its pages show rocky outcrops, misty mountains, pavilions and small figures drawn in light ink with pale washes of green and rose, with red seal stamps and handwritten poems. A designer could take from them the economy of sparse brushwork, the use of empty mist to suggest distance, and the restrained palette of muted color.
