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Link to Source : 본초강목 52권 부도 2권 , Compendium of Materia Medica Vol. 52권 Appendix Vol.2

Album of Appreciation of the Fragrance of Spring

Titledcterms:title: 賞春芳

Creatordc:creator: 恵美長敏 [編]

Publisherdc:publisher: [出版者不明]

Issueddcterms:issued: 1777

URI: eadl:DM-NDL000004035554

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Abstract

Takuhanga is a printing technique in which a cloth-covered cotton ball containing black ink is patted on wet paper placed on an intaglio-engraved woodblock. The technique derives from takuhon, the art of rubbing found in Chinese copybooks printed from the works of old masters of calligraphy. This late-18th-century takuhanga album includes poems in the Chinese style celebrating the spring scenery of Kyoto written by learned men from the city who were students of Chinese literature, including Iwagaki Ryūkei (1741−1808). The drawings are by prominent Kyoto artists from the time, such as Itō Jakuchū (1716−1800), Ikeno Taiga (1723−76), and Maruyama Ōkyo (1733−95). The pitch-black glaze of the inked prints made using this technique imparts a different kind of beauty from that of nishiki-e (Japanese multicolored woodblock prints).(en)

本書は、凹字正面彫りした版木を用いて拓本の技術で製作したものである。「拓版画」、「正面摺り」、「木拓摺り」などと称され、錦絵とは別の墨の美しさがある。本書のほかには、明和４（１７６７）年刊「乗興舟」、同５年刊「玄圃瑶華」等が有名である。若冲（１７１６〜１８００）、池大雅（１７２３〜７６）、応挙（１７３３〜９５）など当時活躍中の京の画家が描いた春景色に、龍草蘆（１７１５〜９２）、江村北海（１７１３〜８８）、岩垣龍渓(１７４１〜１８０８）などの漢学者の賛が付される。全２６図。巻末にある恵美長敏の跋文によれば成立は安永丁酉（１７７７）の春。扉題は黄檗宗の僧・悟心元明（１７１３〜８５？）の書。