Kinpaen (Bunpō) Picture Album (Kinpaen gafu 金波園画譜)
Kinpaen gafu is a Japanese woodblock picture album of 1820, made by the painter Kawamura Bunpō and published in Kyoto by Hishiya Magobei for artists and amateurs learning to paint flowers, grasses and birds. The pages show a branch of red-berried leaves, flowering grasses, a bird perched on a bare tree trunk, and a peony in white outline beside a pale bud. A designer might borrow its spare, open composition, with motifs cropped at the gutter and set against large areas of empty paper.
