景年習画帖 第5
A Meiji-era Japanese drawing manual (ehon) of 1905, published by Yamada Unsōdō, with bird and flower studies drawn by Imao Keinen as practice models for students. The pictures are ink-line and wash images with stippled shading and sparse ground lines, and a designer could take from them the economy of a few brushstrokes suggesting feathers, leaves and water, and the use of open white space around a single motif.
