Picture Album by Old Man Maruyama (En'ō gafu) : [volume 1]
A Japanese woodblock picture album printed in Kyoto in 1837 by Yoshida Shinbei, compiled by the artist Maruyama Ōkyo's circle as a painter's sketchbook for students. The pages show ink-line figures of Chinese sages and hermits in loose robes, with accompanying handwritten Chinese verse and seal stamps. A designer could take the economical brush contours, the gently varied poses of seated and standing figures, and the sparse use of landscape elements like twisted pine and water.
![Picture 1 of 4 from Picture Album by Old Man Maruyama (En'ō gafu) : [volume 1] (1837), leaf 4](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_16839-4-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 4 from Picture Album by Old Man Maruyama (En'ō gafu) : [volume 1] (1837), leaf 7](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_16839-7-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 4 from Picture Album by Old Man Maruyama (En'ō gafu) : [volume 1] (1837), leaf 8](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_16839-8-1.webp)
![Picture 4 of 4 from Picture Album by Old Man Maruyama (En'ō gafu) : [volume 1] (1837), leaf 9](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_16839-9-1.webp)