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Sekkan Sakurai (1715-1790) edited a five-volume picture book with woodblock-printed examples of Chinese and Japanese paintings. Published in 1776 and entitled Wakan Gasoku (i.e., Principles of Japanese and Chinese Painting), volume five included the ten pictures of flowers and (or) birds shown in this gallery. Click on a picture to enlarge it. The artists of these pictures drew objects using the style of Sesshū Tōyō (1420-1506) who was one of the most prominent Japanese artists of his time. The identity of the artists of the ten pictures is unknown because they signed their work using an invented art name rather than their true name.
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