応翠画譜 2
A Japanese woodblock picture manual (ehon) by Asai Ōsui, published in 1880 by Kobayashi Kichigorō, offering model drawings for students of painting. The pages show landscapes with waterfalls and boats, birds on blossoming branches, fish and a kettle, a seated sage, and wanderers on mountain paths, all in clean black-line ink drawing. A designer can take from them the economical brushwork, fine linework, and compositional use of empty space and mist.
