An Album of the Collection Belonging to Kochōshusai (The Courtesy Name of the Given Collector) (Kochōshusai shozō gassatsu)
An 1883 album printed in Osaka by Akashi Chūshichi, reproducing ink paintings from the collection of Kochōshusai, a Japanese collector, for connoisseurs and students of brush painting. The pages show single framed images of plum blossom, bamboo, and birds in sparse black ink on pale paper, with calligraphic inscriptions and red seals beside them. A designer could take the economy of these pages: a single motif set off-centre in a rectangular frame, with generous empty paper beside it.
