小学日本画帖 ７
A Meiji-era Japanese ehon, a primer of picture-book drawings published in 1900 by Saikinsha and credited to the painter Fukada Naojo, aimed at students learning to paint in the Japanese manner. The pictures are monochrome woodblock-printed ink drawings: a carp swimming among reeds, a plum branch beside a dark rock, a pavilion in pine trees, and a flowering branch on a stand. A designer could take from them the economy of bold black ink masses set against open white ground and the calligraphic line used for water, foliage and branches.
