[L'Ami des Jardins et de la Maison]Livre Rare Book
日本画スケッチ集. Nihonga sukettishū. Collection of Japanese Sketches.
réf. 218296Japan. No date. Late Edo. A delightful collection of Japanese ink drawings and watercolours of Japanese gardens and Japanese trees and blossoms including plum trees and flowers coloured maple leaves and bamboos. The collection comprises 1. A colour scroll -梅、紅葉 Ume Momiji. Plum Autum leaves 28 x 510cm. Bunsei 7 1824. 2. Bamboo 竹. A collection of black and white ink sketches tied together with a handmade paper tie. 33 x 47cm. 3. An ink drawing of a bonsai plum tree 43 x 47cm 4. 山道の図面. Sandō no zumen. 48 x 65.3cm 5. 庭園の風景 Teien no fūkei. Scroll illustrated with black and white ink drawings. 54.8 x 389.5cm Some browning and staining but largely the sheets are clean some small tears with loss at edges. A delightful collection. This evocative and varied collection offers insight into Japanese garden design and botanical study during the late Edo period. The delicate hand-coloured scroll of plum blossoms and maples demonstrates both aesthetic sensitivity and horticultural interest with varieties carefully named. The bamboo studies are nice exercises in brush technique while the panoramic scroll of a garden landscape stretching nearly four metres offers a rare visual impression of spatial planning and garden flow. Together these pieces present a rich visual archive of traditional Japanese natural aesthetics and artistic practice. A rewarding collection for those interested in Edo-period garden design nihonga painting or botanical representation in Japanese art. . unknown
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