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仰山閣画譜

斎藤松洲 著 · 1916 · 左久良書房 · 77 pictures

A Japanese ehon picture album of ink paintings published in 1916 by Sakura Shobo under the name of the author Saito Shusui, aimed at students and amateur painters learning brush techniques. The four pictures are monochrome reproductions of hanging scrolls and album leaves, showing soft wash gradations, a cropped pine on a rock ledge, a flight of geese over a low horizon, and a sketchy grove with figures, offering a designer examples of economical negative space and tonal brushwork.

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