雲山画譜
A Japanese ehon picture manual published in 1880 by Shunpūdō and compiled by Shibata Shinbei for students of brush painting. Its pages are woodblock-printed landscapes, with trees, rocks, mountain streams, boats and small figures drawn in clean, sparse black line and set in ruled frames with Chinese captions. A designer could take from them the economy of open white space, the calligraphic line of bare branches and the way a small hut or boat anchors a large empty scene.
