巾箱八種画譜 上
A Meiji-era Japanese ehon picture manual from 1881, published by Ejima Shoten and illustrated by Ueno Yoshiaki, teaching painters how to draw trees and foliage. The pictures are woodblock-style black ink line drawings of bare branching trunks, grass tufts and leaf clusters, with Chinese-character captions for each technique. A designer might take from them the clear, economical linework used to build organic forms like trees, branches and leaf masses.
