Taigadō (Taiga Hall at Sōrinji Temple) Picture Album (Taigadō gafu)
This is a Japanese picture album of ink landscapes by Ike Taiga, published in 1803 as a woodblock-printed set of images for painters and collectors. The pictures are monochrome brush-and-ink scenes of cliffs, waterfalls, trees and mountain paths, drawn with loose, quick strokes and wide areas of pale wash. A designer could draw on their economical use of empty paper, their layered rock textures and their sparse, atmospheric compositions.
