Pictures by Famous Artists (Meika gafu) : [volume 3]

Yosa, Buson, 1716-1784 · 1812 · Japan : [producer not identified] · 17 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture album from 1812, compiled by the painter Yosa Buson (1716-1784) and printed in Japan as a volume of collected works by famous artists. The pages show ink and light-colour studies for a painter's or printmaker's reference, with hand-drawn sketches of figures, plants and rocks. A designer could take from them the economy of single brush strokes, empty space left around a subject, and the restrained use of pale green and ochre washes.

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