

Guide to Chinese Painting, Second Series (Kanga shinan nihen)
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
- Museum Record
- View original
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