Sō Shiseki Picture Album (Sō Shiseki gafu) : [volume 3]

Sō, Shiseki, 1715?-1786 · 1765 · Edo: Suharaya Shirōuemon 須原屋四郎右衛門, Suharaya Mohei 須原屋茂兵衛 · 8 pictures

Sō Shiseki gafu is a Japanese woodblock-printed picture album by the Edo-period painter Sō Shiseki (c. 1715–1786), published in Edo in 1765 by the Suharaya firm for a general audience of painting students and collectors. Its pages show monochrome ink landscapes of mountains, lakeside scenes, pines and a seated scholar, with Chinese-style poem inscriptions and seals; a designer might take from them the economy of brush outline, the use of blank paper as mist and water, and the vertical framing of rock forms.

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