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A Japanese picture book (ehon) of 1896 issued by the Tokyo publisher Kinkōdō, collecting woodblock-reproduced sketches by various artists as a model album. The pictures show a man clinging to a rocky cliff beside a waterfall, a heron among reeds above swirling water, a crouching figure beside pine trunks in tall grass, and a mountain path with a tree and small travellers. A designer might take the economical brushwork, the dramatic use of solid black masses against open white paper, and the spare ink lines that suggest water, grass and rock.
