Hi Karen,

First, with the caveat that I am NOT in any way, shape, or form deeply knowledgeable in this area, as I understand your question you might also want to look at Chinese manuals that were translated into Japanese at some point.

To that end you might want to look at the following, as translated into English.

The tao of painting, a study of the ritual disposition of Chinese painting: with a translation of the Chieh tzŭ yüan hua chuan; or, Mustard Seed Garden manual of painting, 1679-1701

And I believe there was an article or two in Andon by Scott Johnson that might be of interest. Sadly I do not have the cites.

Best regards,

Peter

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Hello everyone,

I need your help again! I have a student writing a paper on Hokusai and she needs to find primary sources from the time period: for instance, artist's manuals or other explanations of their works. I've found this article on Open Culture:

http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/free-drawing-lessons-from-katsushika-hokusai.html

Get Free Drawing Lessons from Katsushika Hokusai, Who Famously Painted The Great Wave of Kanagawa: Read His How-To Book, Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawings | Open Culture www.openculture.com Even if you don't know eighteenth and nineteenth century Japanese art, you definitely know the work of eighteenth and nineteenth century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai — specifically his Great Wave off Kanagawa.. (And if you'd like to know a little more about it, have a look at this short video from PBS' The Art Assignment.)But if that so often reproduced, imitated, and parodied 1830s ...

Does anyone know of works by Japanese artists of the 18th and early 19th century that have been translated into English?

It's so hard to look up works *written* by artists, since LC puts artists as authors of books even when they are actually subjects of the books!

thanks,

Karen Bouchard

Brown University

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