Kyōsai’s Treatise on Painting (Kyōsai gadan) : [volume 4]

Kawanabe, Gyōsai, 1831-1889 · 1887 · 21 pictures

Kyōsai's Treatise on Painting, volume 4, is a Japanese instructional book on painting by Kawanabe Gyōsai, published in 1887 for artists and students. Its pages pair dense columns of Japanese text with woodblock-printed landscape and figure illustrations, including misty mountains, twisted pines, and a dragon over a river. A designer could draw on its confident, economical ink line and its use of empty space to suggest atmosphere and depth.

Kawanabe, Gyōsai, 1831-1889

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