Ōson fuga [i.e. gafu]
A Japanese woodblock album of botanical sketches by Sakai Hōitsu, published in Edo in 1817 by Izumiya Shōjirō as a pattern book for painters and artisans. Its pages show single plants set on plain paper, with a few poems and carved seal marks, and a designer can take from them the economy of a single flowering stem placed off-centre in a wide field of empty space.
![Picture 1 of 7 from Ōson fuga [i.e. gafu] (1817), leaf 4](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-oysonfugaiegafu00saka-4-0.webp)
![Picture 2 of 7 from Ōson fuga [i.e. gafu] (1817), leaf 6](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-oysonfugaiegafu00saka-6-0.webp)
![Picture 3 of 7 from Ōson fuga [i.e. gafu] (1817), leaf 11](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-oysonfugaiegafu00saka-11-0.webp)
![Picture 4 of 7 from Ōson fuga [i.e. gafu] (1817), leaf 13](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-oysonfugaiegafu00saka-13-0.webp)
![Picture 5 of 7 from Ōson fuga [i.e. gafu] (1817), leaf 17](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-oysonfugaiegafu00saka-17-0.webp)
![Picture 6 of 7 from Ōson fuga [i.e. gafu] (1817), leaf 23](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-oysonfugaiegafu00saka-23-0.webp)
![Picture 7 of 7 from Ōson fuga [i.e. gafu] (1817), leaf 27](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-oysonfugaiegafu00saka-27-0.webp)