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中等毛筆画帖 第2巻

橋本雅邦 著 · 1905 · 中外図書局 · 25 pictures

A Japanese brush-painting manual of 1905, published by Chugai Tosho Kyoku and credited to the painter Hashimoto Gaho, intended as a model book for students learning ink-brush technique. The four scans show blurred, high-contrast reproductions of brushed stems, branches and a curved bank or vessel rendered in dry, scratchy ink strokes, suggesting how a designer might borrow loose calligraphic line and the energy of single gestural strokes for botanical or abstract motifs.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library