新式画帖 4巻
A Japanese picture book (ehon) in four volumes, compiled and illustrated by Komatsu Fumio and published in 1909 by Katagawa Kensuke. The pictures are brush-and-ink studies of pine, plum and other bare trees, a shoreline with a boat and houses, and a seated bird with reeds, drawn in loose black strokes with grey wash and dry-brush texture. A designer could take their sparse negative space, gestural calligraphic line and asymmetric placement of single motifs.
