艸花習画帖
A Japanese picture-book of plant studies (ehon) by Yuki Somei, published in 1922 by Kōgeisha, made as a model album for students of painting. The pictures are ink-wash botanical sketches of irises, dianthus and reeds, drawn with loose wet brushwork on pale paper, with a seal and signature in the corner. A designer could take from them the economy of a single brushed stroke, open negative space and the way a few marks suggest a whole stem and leaf.
