Bunpō Landscape Picture Album (Bunpō sansui gafu)
This volume highlights the personal style of Kawamura Bunpō, a painter of the Kishi school renowned for his stylistic versatility. Rather than composing landscapes dominated by lofty mountains, here Bunpō focused intently on figures. Each illustration is paired with an original poem inscribed by the historian and calligrapher Rai Sanyō, exemplifying the superb collaboration between the two artists.
Artwork Details
- 河村文鳳著 頼山陽序・賛 『文鳳山水画譜』
- Title: Bunpō Landscape Picture Album (Bunpō sansui gafu)
- Artist: Illustrations by Kawamura Bunpō (Japanese, 1779–1821)
- Artist: Inscriptions by Rai San’yō (Japanese, 1780–1832)
- Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
- Date: 1824
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: 10 3/16 × 6 13/16 in. (25.8 × 17.3 cm)
- Classification: Illustrated Books
- Credit Line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013
- Object Number: 2013.662
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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