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Drawings by the Drunken Fuyō (Gazu sui Fuyō 画図酔芙蓉)

Suzuki, Fuyō, 1749?-1816 · 1809 · Edo : Suharaya Ihachi 須原屋伊八; Seireikaku 青黎閣 · 40 pictures

A woodblock-printed Japanese picture book of 1809 by Suzuki Fuyō, published in Edo by Suharaya Ihachi and Seireikaku, presumably for painters and connoisseurs. Its double-page spreads show ink landscapes of mountains, waterfalls, pine-covered cliffs, pavilions, and lakes drawn in fine, varied outline with light shading. A designer could take its economical contour line and the layered mist and rock forms as models for minimal landscape motifs.

Suzuki, Fuyō, 1749?-1816

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