Kyōsai’s Treatise on Painting (Kyōsai gadan) : [volume 1]
Kyōsai's Treatise on Painting is a Japanese instructional picture book by the painter Kawanabe Kyōsai, published in 1887 in Japan for students and practising painters. Its double-page spreads show figure studies of Chinese sages, immortals and women in ink with light colour washes, presented as models of drawing technique.
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