A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings (Wakan meigaen) : [volume 4]

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 · 6 pictures

A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings is a 1750 illustrated book compiled by the painter Ōoka Shunboku and published in Osaka, Edo and Kyoto for an audience of artists and connoisseurs. Its pages reproduce Japanese and Chinese painting subjects as woodblock prints in ink line, with a few figures, trees and rocks to a page. A designer might take its economical brushwork, calligraphic inscriptions and loose sketched rain and water strokes as models for simple line illustration.

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