Kihō Picture Album (Kihō gafu 埼鳳画譜)
Kihō Picture Album is a Japanese woodblock-printed pattern book made by Kawamura Kihō and published in Kyoto in 1827 by Bunchōdō and Yoshida Shinbei for artists and students of painting. The spreads show brief ink and pale colour studies of landscape, plants, insects and birds, drawn with economical outlines and light washes. A designer could take loose, uncluttered line and sparse placement on the page, with generous white space around each motif.
