名人蘭竹画譜
A Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon) of bamboo and orchid paintings compiled by Nakazawa Keizan and published by Kaishinrō in 1879, meant for students of brush painting. The pages show ink sketches of bamboo leaves and stalks in loose, brushed strokes, with a few carved seal marks and calligraphic captions. A designer could take from them the economy of the single brush stroke, the negative space left around sparse foliage, and the clean asymmetric arrangement of growth across a page.
