GARDEN LANDSCAPING SCROLL, JAPAN.
Picture scroll, on paper, discussing & illustrating garden designs of the Muromachi period (1335-1573) in Japan. Ten large brush & ink drawings of gardens, with much manuscript text & accompanying illustrations of varieties of rocks. Scroll (365 x 6270 mm.), outer blue endpaper at beginning (paper a little wrinkled), wooden core roller. [Japan]: copies of texts written in 1395, 1475, 1509, & 1523; compiled mid-Edo.
A handsomely illustrated picture scroll discussing and depicting Japanese garden design considerations, derived from four texts composed in 1395-1523 during the troubled Muromachi period. These texts were all based on the Sakuteiki 作庭記... More