A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings (Wakan meigaen) : [volume 5]

Ōoka, Shunboku, 1680-1763 · 1750 · Osaka : Ōnogi Ichibei 大野木市兵衛; Edo : Suhara Mohei 須原茂兵衛; Kyoto : Kōnan Shirōuemon 河南四郎右衛門 · 12 pictures

A Garden of Celebrated Japanese and Chinese Paintings is a 1750 woodblock-printed picture manual in volume 5, compiled by the Japanese painter Ōoka Shunboku (1680-1763) and published in Osaka, Edo and Kyoto for artists and connoisseurs. Its double-page spreads reproduce ink-brush paintings as clean monochrome line drawings: a songbird on a branch, a horse, bamboo, seated scholars and a figure beside a flowering pot. A designer can take economical brushwork, open negative space and the simple gestural line of East Asian ink painting.

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