Kanrin Picture Album (Kanrin gafu 閑林画譜) : [volume 2]
Kanrin Picture Album, volume 2, is a Japanese woodblock picture book printed in Edo in 1845 by the publisher Hanabusa Tasuke and made by the artist Okada Kanrin, 1780-1849, for students and lovers of painting. Its double-page spreads show birds, blossoming branches and reeds in fine black outline with light touches of colour, a model of economical brushwork a designer could borrow for minimal botanical and animal motifs.
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![Picture 6 of 15 from Kanrin Picture Album (Kanrin gafu 閑林画譜) : [volume 2] (1845), leaf 12](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_19613-12-1.webp)
![Picture 7 of 15 from Kanrin Picture Album (Kanrin gafu 閑林画譜) : [volume 2] (1845), leaf 13](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_19613-13-1.webp)
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![Picture 9 of 15 from Kanrin Picture Album (Kanrin gafu 閑林画譜) : [volume 2] (1845), leaf 16](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_19613-16-1.webp)
![Picture 10 of 15 from Kanrin Picture Album (Kanrin gafu 閑林画譜) : [volume 2] (1845), leaf 17](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_19613-17-1.webp)
![Picture 11 of 15 from Kanrin Picture Album (Kanrin gafu 閑林画譜) : [volume 2] (1845), leaf 19](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_19613-19-1.webp)
![Picture 12 of 15 from Kanrin Picture Album (Kanrin gafu 閑林画譜) : [volume 2] (1845), leaf 20](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_19613-20-1.webp)
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