A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings (Wakan meigaen) : [volume 1]

Ōoka, Shunboku, 1680-1763 · 1750 · Osaka : Ōnogi Ichibei 大野木市兵衛; Edo : Suhara Mohei 須原茂兵衛; Kyoto : Kōnan Shirōuemon 河南四郎右衛門 · 13 pictures

A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings is a 1750 woodblock-printed picture album in Japanese bound format, compiled by the painter Ōoka Shunboku and published in Osaka, Edo and Kyoto for artists and connoisseurs. Its double-page spreads are ink-line sketches of birds, pines, rocks, grapes and figures, many with calligraphic signatures. A designer can take from them the economy of single-weight brush outline, open negative space and carefully placed inscriptions as a model for minimal botanical and animal motifs.

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