Pictures by Famous Artists (Meika gafu) : [volume 1]

Yosa, Buson, 1716-1784 · 1812 · Japan : [producer not identified] · 20 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock-printed album of 1812, Meika gafu, a volume of painting models compiled from works by famous artists and attributed here to Yosa Buson (1716-1784), printed in Japan for artists and students of brush painting. The pictures are ink landscapes, sages, plants and birds drawn with economical brushwork on open pages, with calligraphic poems set beside them; a designer might take their sparse composition, empty space and loose line for layout and minimal illustration.

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