The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual : [volume 5] (Japanese reprint)

Wang, Gai, active 1677-1705 · 1753 · Kyoto: Kōnanrō 江南堂; Kōnan shirōuemon 江南四郎右衛門; and Osaka: Onoki Ichibei 大野木市兵衛; Edo: Nishimura Genroku 西村源六 · 15 pictures

The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual, volume 5, is a Japanese reprint of a Chinese painting instruction book by Wang Gai, issued in 1753 by publishers in Kyoto, Osaka and Edo for artists and students. Its pages show rows of landscape studies, with misty mountains, rock formations, trees and small huts drawn in ink, some with pale colour washes, set in oval and fan-shaped frames beside calligraphic inscriptions and red seal stamps that a designer could borrow for compositional ideas.

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