Kinkadō's Album of Drawings by Keibun (Keibun Kinka chō)
An 1898 album of plant studies by the Kyoto painter Matsumura Keibun (1779-1843), published by Tsujimoto Kinkadō in Kyoto, likely for artists and students of Japanese botanical painting. The pictures show leaves, branches and blossoms rendered in ink wash and soft colour on warm paper, with some plates in a printed tonal style; a designer could take their economical outlines, loose shading and asymmetrical arrangement of foliage as compositional models.
