I'm not sure if I have it with me but I have this neat little porceline cup that has the islands style landscape in blue and white while there are brown buildings and monk like figures (I'll look for it and try to get a picture posted over the next week). It looks like japanese brush painting style but all my searches for this sort of thing come up with not much.

The monks are made about five strokes (a dot for the head, swooshes for the arms and the top and bottom of the robed body are done seperately). The buildings are similarly economical in painting styles, but the landscape has that complex simplicity of the wavy blended sumi-e style.

any recommendations of where I can find referances and samples to look at?