A Fine And Beautiful Album Concerned With Various Genera Of Bamboo How To Draw Them

by Bamboo Painting Treatise

$16,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

30 fine color paintings & 24 black ink drawings of various parts of the bamboo. 50 leaves. 4to 275 x 206 mm. , modern bright silk brocade wrappers, stitched as issued. Probably Japan: late Edo . A beautiful album of finely rendered drawings of bamboo, accompanied by explanatory text. There has been a long tradition in both China, since the eighth century, and Japan of illustrating bamboo, with much thought given to composition and the painting of the

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