華山画譜 上
A Japanese ehon picture book titled Kaizan gafu, compiled by Hitomi Shinshirō and published in 1880 by Seyama Naojirō, offering model landscapes for painters to copy. Its double-page monochrome woodblock prints show craggy cliffs, twisted pines, distant hills, thatched huts, and figures on rocky paths, drawn with fine hatched ink strokes. A designer could borrow its economical brush-like contour lines and the way empty paper stands in for mist and sky.
