illustrated book;
print
- Museum number
- 1979,0305,0.17.4
- Title
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Object: Hasshu gafu 八種画譜 (Manual of Eight Categories of Paintings)
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Meiko senfu (Album of Famous Fan Paintings)
- Description
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Illustrated book. Vol. 1 of four volumes from an original set of eight. Woodblock-printed.
- Production date
- 1672 (First edition of 'Meiko senfu')
- Dimensions
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Height: 28.40 centimetres
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Width: 20.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Hillier and Smith 1980
The illustrations are woodblock paraphrases of Chinese paintings and are important in Japan for their influence on eighteenth-century 'Nanga' and 'Kano' artists who, because of the scarcity of original Chinese paintings, turned to these woodcut versions for inspiration.
Literature:
Brown, Louise Norton, 'Block Printing and Book Illustration in Japan', London and New York, 1924, p. 40.
Mitchell, C H, with the assistance of Ueda, Osamu, 'The Illustrated Books of the Nanga, Maruyama, Shijo and Other Related Schools of Japan. A Biobibliography', Los Angeles, 1972, pp. 289-90.
Toda, Kenji, 'Descriptive Catalogue of the Japanese and Chinese Illustrated Books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago', Chicago, 1931, p. 71.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1979
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1979,0305,0.17.4
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: JH.17 (Hillier no.)