Sōnan (Chinnen) Picture Album (Sōnan gafu 楚南画譜)
Sōnan Picture Album is a Japanese woodblock-printed picture album by Ōnishi Chin'nen, published in Edo in 1834 by Kobayashi Shinbei and Ōsakya Genbei, and aimed at artists and general readers wanting models for drawing. The pictures show a robed figure on a shore, two boys playing with a turtle, a fisherman carrying a fish and basket, a man with a large basket, and pigeons beside flowering plants, drawn in loose ink with light colour washes. A designer might take the economical brushwork, pale wash backgrounds, and the way single figures and animals are placed against open white paper.
