A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings (Wakan meigaen) : [volume 6]

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 · 11 pictures

A woodblock-printed volume from 1750, compiled by the Japanese painter Ōoka Shunboku and issued by publishers in Osaka, Edo and Kyoto, for artists and connoisseurs of the period. Its pages show quick ink sketches of people, animals and landscape, paired with short handwritten verses in the margins. A designer could take from them the economy of single-line brushwork, with figures reduced to a few strokes and large areas of blank paper left open.

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