Kinpaen (Bunpō) Picture Album (Kinpaen gafu 金波園画譜)
Kinpaen gafu is a Japanese woodblock picture album by Kawamura Bunpō, published in Kyoto by Hishiya Magobei in 1820, meant as a model book for painters and students of flower and plant drawing. The pages show sprays of blossoms, buds and leaves in pale blue-green and pink washes, with simple ink outlines and generous blank paper around each branch. A designer could take the sparse asymmetric placement of single branches across a spread as a model for restrained botanical layout.
