菊池容斎画譜
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) of 1891, published by Ōkura Magobei, reducing the paintings of Kikuchi Yōsai for a general readership. The four pages show pine branches with a figure, misty ink-wash rock forms, a bird in a tree beside a sea, and figures among blossoming trees with a dark rock. For designers, the loose wash shading and sparse, deliberate negative space offer a model for economical monochrome composition.
