竹田画譜 後
A Japanese ehon picture book from 1879, a sequel volume of the painting manual Chikuden Gafu by the painter Tanomura Chikuden, edited by Izawa Yasuji and published by Niwa Komakichi for students of ink painting. Its woodblock-printed pages show landscapes, trees, bamboo and rocky hills rendered in loose, calligraphic brushstrokes, with seals and short inscriptions in the margins. A designer might take the economy of these marks, where a few confident strokes suggest mountains, foliage and mist, and the open white space left around them.
