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帝国毛筆新画帖教授法

川端玉章, 柿山蕃雄 著 · 1902 · 三省堂 · 54 pictures

A 1902 Japanese teaching manual from Sanseido, written by painters Kawabata Gyokusho and Kakiyama Shigeo, for students learning brush drawing. Its pictures are simple line diagrams: a leaf with branching veins, a triangle subdivided into smaller triangles, and a ring with arrows showing stroke direction. A designer could draw on their clean, stepwise construction of forms from basic geometry.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library