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呉昌碩先生画帖

林源吉 編 · 1920 · 双樹園 · 17 pictures

A 1920 Japanese picture album of hanging scroll paintings by the Chinese artist Wu Changshuo, compiled by Hayashi Genkichi and published by Sojuen, collected as a painting model book. The four pictures are ink-brush scrolls with calligraphic inscriptions running down their margins, showing bamboo, leafy branches and rocks, and a designer could take from them the sparse black-ink brushwork, dense ink washes and tall vertical composition.

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