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Guide to Chinese Painting, Second Series (Kanga shinan nihen)

Kawamura Bunpō

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows an open book with two pages side by side. The pages are yellowed. Each page has a black-lined border. The left page features a tree with a thick trunk and many branches. The branches are bare except for some small buds. The right page features a tree with a thinner trunk and a more sparse arrangement of branches. The branches are long and thin. The background of both pages features a faint gray image of a tree. There are vertical lines of Asian script on both pages, and there are some horizontal lines of Asian script on the right page.

Artwork Details

Date
1811
Medium
Set of three woodblock printed books; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
600 × 482 px
Public Domain
Yes
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