Yōfu gajō
A Japanese painting album published in Kyoto in 1895 by Yamada Unsōdō, drawn from the Western-style painting tradition in Japan and held by the Smithsonian Libraries. The single plate shows a misty landscape with a blossoming tree in the foreground, a gnarled trunk, a distant hillside, and a lone figure walking beside a wooden fence. A designer could take the pale grey-green wash, the open negative space above the hills, and the sparse, economical brushwork for quiet, atmospheric layouts.
