A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings (Wakan meigaen) : [volume 2]

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 · 8 pictures

A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings is an 1750 Japanese woodblock-printed volume by the painter-collector Ōoka Shunboku (1680-1763), published in Osaka, Edo and Kyoto for artists and connoisseurs. Its pages are line-drawn copies of famous paintings showing court figures in patterned robes, seated poets and garden scenes, with brief inscriptions beside each figure. A designer could take from them the economical contour line, the repeated roundel patterns on kimono fabric, and the spare placement of figures against empty paper.

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