The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual : [volume 3] (Japanese reprint)
The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual, volume 3, is a Japanese reprint of a Chinese painting instruction book by Wang Gai, first published in 1679 and here issued in 1753 by Kyoto, Osaka and Edo publishers for students of ink painting. Its pages are woodblock-printed line drawings of rock formations and mountain peaks, each with explanatory text in Chinese characters beside it. A designer could take from them the simple contour strokes and hatching used to build craggy stone and cliff forms, a useful vocabulary for landscape linework.
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