Bunpō Landscape Picture Album (Bunpō sansui gafu)

Illustrations by Kawamura Bunpō Japanese

Inscriptions by Rai San’yō Japanese

1824

Not on view

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.

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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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