Album of Twelve Nanga-style Landscapes (Kikanchō 奇観幀)
An album of twelve landscape paintings in the Nanga style by Tanomura Chokunyū (1814-1907), a Japanese painter working in ink and light colour. The pictures show mountains, pines, willows and small huts or bridges rendered in soft grey washes with calligraphic inscriptions and red seals. A designer could take loose ink wash shading, empty mist-filled space and the placement of a single small figure or roof against large masses of rock.
