Guide to Chinese Painting (Kanga shinan nihen 漢画指南二編), Second Series : [volume 1]
Guide to Chinese Painting, second series, volume 1, is a Japanese woodblock instruction manual by Kawamura Bunpō, published in Kyoto in 1810 by Hishiya Magobei for students of Chinese-style ink painting. Its pages show a sequence of individual trees drawn in ink with pale grey wash behind them, each labelled with a short Chinese-character caption, so a designer can study how branches, trunks and foliage are built up from simple linear marks.
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