Primer on Eight Varieties of Painting (Hasshu gafu 八集画譜)
This Chinese woodblock painting manual, the Hasshu gafu, was printed in 1672 for students and amateur painters who copied its landscape, figure and tree models. Its facing pages pair a black-and-white ink-line picture on the left with a column of calligraphic verse on the right, so a designer can study the economical brushwork of pines, willows, rocks, pavilions and small robed figures.
