Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 3]

Kawamura, Bunpō, 1779-1821 · 1813 · Kyoto : Yoshidaya Shinbei 吉田屋新兵衛; Osaka : Kawachiya Kihei 河内屋喜兵衛 · 13 pictures

Bunpō Picture Album, first series, volume 3, is a Japanese woodblock-printed sketchbook of figure studies by Kawamura Bunpō, published in Kyoto and Osaka in 1813 for painters and collectors. Its pages show bearded sages and scholars in loose robes, drawn in quick ink line with little shading, some set beside tree trunks, rocks, and a small monkey. A designer could take from them the economy of a single confident contour line and the way figures are placed loosely across the page with ample blank paper around them.

Kawamura, Bunpō, 1779-1821

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