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Designs for Ranma (Door Transoms) (Ranma zushiki) : [volume 2]

Ōoka, Shunboku, 1680-1763 · 1734 · Osaka : Ōnoki Ichibei 大野木市兵衛; Edo : Suhara Mohei 須原茂兵衛 · 14 pictures

A Japanese pattern book of carved door-transom designs (ranma) by Ōoka Shunboku, printed in 1734 in Osaka and Edo for carpenters and craftsmen. The white-on-black woodblock pages show plant and animal motifs, and a designer might take from them the way dense foliage, grapes, and flowing water are arranged as openwork panels that fill a horizontal band.

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