Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 1]
Bunpō Picture Album is a Japanese woodblock-printed picture manual by Kawamura Bunpō, published in Kyoto and Osaka in 1813 for painters and students. Its pages show Zen monks and sages in ink-line sketches, many with short Chinese captions beside them. A designer could take from them the economical contour line, loose drapery folds, and the way single robed figures are set off by open paper.
![Picture 1 of 15 from Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 1] (1813), leaf 8](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9664-8-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 15 from Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 1] (1813), leaf 16](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9664-16-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 15 from Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 1] (1813), leaf 17](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9664-17-1.webp)
![Picture 4 of 15 from Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 1] (1813), leaf 18](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9664-18-1.webp)
![Picture 5 of 15 from Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 1] (1813), leaf 19](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9664-19-1.webp)
![Picture 6 of 15 from Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 1] (1813), leaf 20](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9664-20-1.webp)
![Picture 7 of 15 from Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 1] (1813), leaf 21](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9664-21-1.webp)
![Picture 8 of 15 from Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 1] (1813), leaf 22](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9664-22-1.webp)
![Picture 9 of 15 from Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 1] (1813), leaf 23](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9664-23-1.webp)
![Picture 10 of 15 from Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 1] (1813), leaf 24](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9664-24-1.webp)
![Picture 11 of 15 from Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 1] (1813), leaf 25](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9664-25-1.webp)
![Picture 12 of 15 from Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 1] (1813), leaf 26](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9664-26-1.webp)
![Picture 13 of 15 from Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 1] (1813), leaf 29](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9664-29-1.webp)
![Picture 14 of 15 from Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 1] (1813), leaf 30](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9664-30-1.webp)
![Picture 15 of 15 from Bunpō Picture Album (Bunpō gafu 文鳳画譜), First Series : [volume 1] (1813), leaf 32](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9664-32-1.webp)