Sonan's Picture Book (Sonan gafu 楚南画譜)
Sonan's Picture Book is a Japanese woodblock illustrated album published in 1834 by the painter Ōnishi Chin'nen (1792-1851), offering ink and light-colour sketches of everyday life for a general audience. The pages show a robed woman walking through misty fields, flowering plants and grasses, a fisherman with a fish and basket, a man carrying a large woven load, and two children playing with a tortoise. A designer might take the loose, economical brushwork, the pale washes of grey-green and rose, and the way single figures sit against wide empty ground.
