Although the homes on my mother's side burned down during the war (no political statement whatsoever - just fact), they managed to maintain an assortment of over 200 sketches like these samples. I had a tough time trying to understand what she meant (she is 88), but something about many of these were "pre-sketches" of final artworks.
My great grandfather's name was "Wakio Shibayama" and was apparently teaching art towards the end of his life in Japan. She said he kept a library of such sketches and some have two of his hanko on them for "claiming rights". It appears that some are from the Meiji period:
IMG_8916 by
Mustang Koji, on Flickr
Japanese landscape 1800s by
Mustang Koji, on Flickr
IMG_8911 by
Mustang Koji, on Flickr
Some like the one below were painted on several smaller sheets of extremely thin rice paper that were glued together:
An elaborate sketch of old Japan by
Mustang Koji, on Flickr
Does anyone have any comments or historical info on the type of art? I'm not looking for any monetary evaluation, btw.
有難うございます。