A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings (Wakan meigaen) : [volume 1]
A woodblock-printed picture book compiled by the Japanese painter Ōoka Shunboku and published in 1750 across Osaka, Edo and Kyoto, aimed at painters and students copying models. Its pages pair Japanese and Chinese painting motifs in monochrome ink line, and the pictures are clean, economical outlines of birds, flowers, rocks, pines and figures that a designer could adapt for pattern, ornament or sketch-based illustration.
![Picture 1 of 6 from A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings (Wakan meigaen) : [volume 1] (1750), leaf 8](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_17533-8-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 6 from A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings (Wakan meigaen) : [volume 1] (1750), leaf 15](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_17533-15-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 6 from A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings (Wakan meigaen) : [volume 1] (1750), leaf 17](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_17533-17-1.webp)
![Picture 4 of 6 from A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings (Wakan meigaen) : [volume 1] (1750), leaf 19](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_17533-19-1.webp)
![Picture 5 of 6 from A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings (Wakan meigaen) : [volume 1] (1750), leaf 20](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_17533-20-1.webp)
![Picture 6 of 6 from A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings (Wakan meigaen) : [volume 1] (1750), leaf 22](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_17533-22-1.webp)