Primer on Eight Varieties of Painting (Hasshu gafu 八集画譜)
This is a Chinese-style woodblock printed painting manual, the Hasshu gafu, issued in Japan in 1672 for students of ink landscape painting. Each opening pairs a spare black-line landscape or figure study on the left with a column of calligraphic verse on the right, so the pictures read as models for brushwork rather than narrative scenes. A designer could take from them the economy of a few contour strokes, open white ground, and small figures set against misty mountains and water.
