Unkashū
Unkashū is a Japanese pattern book of cloud motifs compiled by Furuya Kōrin and published in Kyoto by Yamada Unsōdō in 1903, made as a reference for artists and decorators. Its double-page spreads show clouds in ink line, from loose wisps and billowing masses to stylised scrolling bands and repeating panels, which a designer could take as a ready vocabulary for cloud-based border, textile or background motifs.
