Illustrated scroll of garden design paintings on paper, mounted on later paper

by Landscape Architecture Scroll

$3,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Scroll 305 x 3760 mm. , inner front endpaper of speckled gold, outer side covered in green silk brocade, wooden core roller. At end in trans. : “Passed down from Ise.” Japan : mid- to late Edo. “Sansui garden” is a general term for Japanese landscape gardens that include both “mountains and water” 山 plus 水 = “sansui” , using natural elements like rocks, sand, gravel, and sometimes moss or pruned plants. Within this general term,

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