高等小学鉛筆画帖 : 男女生共用 第1学年
A 1912 Japanese pencil-drawing textbook for first-year students in higher elementary schools, issued by the Ministry of Education (Monbushō) and published by Tokyo Shoseki for both boys and girls. Its four pictures are rough pencil studies: a closed umbrella, a hand with curled fingers, a figure in a long coat seen sideways, and a drooping rose with leaves. A designer might take from them the loose, sketchbook-like economy of graphite line and light shading used to teach observation of everyday objects.
