名家画譜 中
A Japanese picture book (ehon) published by Kinkōdō in 1896, a volume of the 名家画譜 collection that reproduces woodblock-style prints and ink paintings by celebrated artists. The pages show a seated woman with a fan-shaped frame, a robed monk beside a small hut, a figure in patterned robes passing a fence under blossoms, and a standing courtesan with long trailing sleeves. A designer could take from them the economical black line work, flat fields of tone, and the use of pale negative space around figures and landscape.
