粉ふん本ぽん

noun

copy; sketch; study drawing

Refers to a preparatory drawing, copy, or sketch used as a model in traditional East Asian painting. Rare term; modern Japanese more commonly uses 下絵 or 模写.

• この粉ふん本ぽんは、江え戸ど時じ代だいの画が家かが弟で子しに描かかせたものだ。

  This sketch is one that an Edo-period painter had his disciple draw.