Bilingual (original Chinese text/ Japanese translation)
, Showa 10 / 1934 edition, 13 volumes (complete boxed set) . Each volume has 50-60 files (100-120 pages)
Condition: loose fukurotoji bindings in 5 volumes. Except for this, there is no wood worm holes, no missing pages, no stains (except for usual yellowish tint due to age), no torn pages. Total weight: 4.2 kg
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Publisher and editor:
小杉放庵 (Kosugi Hōan) - Editor
公田連太郎 (Kōda Rentarō) - Editor
発行人 (Hakkōnin) - Publisher
北原義雄 (Kitahara Yoshio) - Publisher
アトリエ社 (Atorie Sha) - Atelier Company (publishing house)
"The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual", the first collection has 5 volumes (A Brief Introduction to Qingzaitang Painting, A Manual of Trees, A Manual of Mountains and Rocks, A Manual of Figures and Buildings, and A Manual of Imitating Various Artists' Paintings); the second collection consists of 4 manuals on orchids, bamboo, plum blossoms, and chrysanthemums, painted by Zhu Sheng and Wang Zhi, and edited by Wang Gai, his brother Wang Shi, and his younger brother Wang Nie; the third collection consists of 2 manuals on flowers, grass insects, and flowers, trees, and birds, in 4 volumes, compiled and illustrated by the Wang brothers.
Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden (芥子園畫傳, Jieziyuan Huazhuan), sometimes known as Jieziyuan Huapu (芥子園畫譜), is a printed manual of Chinese painting compiled during the early-Qing Dynasty. Many renowned later Chinese painters, like Qi Baishi, began their drawing lessons with the manual. It is an important early example of colour printing.
The work was commissioned by Shen Xinyou (沈心友), whose mansion in Lanxi, Zhejiang province was known as Jieziyuan, or Mustard Seed Garden. Shen possessed the teaching materials of Li Liufang (李流芳), a painter of the late-Ming dynasty, and commissioned Wang Gai [zh](王概), Wang Shi (王蓍), Wang Nie [zh] (王臬), and Zhu Sheng (诸升) to edit and expand those materials with the aim of producing a manual for landscape painting. The result was the first part of Jieziyuan Huazhuan, published in 1679, in five colours. It comprises five juan (卷) or fascicles. Li Yu, as the publisher, wrote a preface for this part. The first fascicle deals with the general principles of landscape painting, the second the painting of trees, the third that of hills and stones, the fourth that of people and houses, and the fifth comprises the selected works of great landscape painters.
The volumes also entered Edo period Japan, where woodblock printed copies became relatively easily accessible in all the major cities; the Mustard Seed Garden Manual came to be used by Japanese nanga (bunjinga) artists and was an important element in the training of nanga artists and the development of nanga painting.
