山水画帖
A Japanese landscape picture album (ehon) of 1901, with drawings by Furu (古年) and compiled and published by Kobayashi Bunshichi (小林文七). The pictures are brush-and-ink style landscapes of bare trees, shrubs, a small hut, water and distant shorelines, with red seal stamps and sparse handwritten signatures in the corners. A designer might take their loose, open composition, expressive dry-brush textures and generous white space as a model for minimal scenic layouts.
