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文晁山水画譜

谷文晁 画 · 1888 · 広文堂 · 58 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese picture book of landscape studies, Bunchō Sansui Gafu, drawn by Tani Bunchō and published in 1888 by Kōbundō in Tokyo for artists and students of painting. Its woodblock-printed pages show mountains, pine trees, rocky shorelines, and small thatched huts or pavilions built in the Chinese-influenced ink landscape manner, with sparse linework and open white space that a designer could borrow for minimal natural compositions.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library