Tsuru no soshi
Tsuru no soshi is a Japanese illustrated handscroft-style picture book of around 1600, with calligraphic text in columns on one page facing a painted scene on the other, likely made for courtly readers. Its pictures show figures in robes on wooden veranda walkways beside green-painted banks, with pine, cherry blossom and gold-clouded hills; a designer could draw on its flat planes, muted earth colours and diagonal architectural lines.
