Kan'yōsai Picture Album (Kan'yōsai gafu)
Kan'yōsai Picture Album is a Japanese woodblock-printed painting manual by Takebe Ayatari, published in Edo and Kyoto in 1762 for artists and students learning brush-painting models. The pages show ink-line studies of plants and trees, with Chinese-script inscriptions beside each motif. A designer could draw on their economical contour lines, dark-edged leaf clusters and sparse, open compositions for botanical or minimalist linework.
