Kyōsai’s Treatise on Painting (Kyōsai gadan) : [volume 3]
Kyōsai's Treatise on Painting, volume 3, is a Japanese woodblock-printed instruction book by the painter Kawanabe Gyōsai, published in 1887 in Japan for artists and students. Its pages pair columns of Japanese text with loose, energetic ink sketches of figures, animals and scenes, which a designer might take as examples of quick gestural line and dynamic crowd composition.
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