景年習画帖 第3
A Japanese ehon sketchbook, the third volume of Imao Keinen's drawing manual, published in 1905 by Yamada Unsōdō in Japan for students learning brush painting. The pictures are monochrome woodblock-style plant studies, with leaves and stems rendered in soft graded ink washes against blank paper. A designer could take from them the economy of single-line stems, the loose asymmetric placement of foliage and flowers, and the way tonal shading builds form with minimal line.
