Sketch book (Funpon 粉本)
This is a sketchbook of ink and light colour drawings by Hasegawa Settei, a Japanese painter active in the nineteenth century, made as a model collection for pupils and workshop use. The pages show figures from Chinese and Japanese stories and daily life, drawn with loose brushwork on pale paper. A designer could take from them the economy of a single flowing brush line, with minimal colour washes that suggest form without outlining it.
