A practical manual lays out a progressive method for studying composition by treating line, notan (dark-and-light), and color as foundational elements and offering graded exercises, brush practice, and examples drawn from Japanese materials and prints. It emphasizes building harmony through structured design work in squares, circles, rectangles, landscapes, and representational subjects, and explains systems of two, three, and multiple values alongside color theory and scheme-making. The approach advocates training appreciation and judgment through constructive practice rather than imitation, providing lessons and illustrations for students and teachers to develop control of form, color, and spatial rhythm.