Wakan Meiga En
龢漢名畫苑
A Garden of Celebrated
Japanese and Chinese Paintings

Author : Ooka Shunboku (1680-1763) 大岡 春朴

Date of first publication : Year 2 of Kanen era (= 1750). Our copy is from 1887
Author of preface : 菅晨陽子旭甫
Engraver : 泉貞書
6 volumes altogether (全六冊)

The tables below provide a translitteration and translation of the information on the images and in the tables of contents of the six volumes. Since this book has been digitized and made available on internet by others (links below), we are not showing images from our own copy of the book, but provide links to those of the Freer/Sackler collection. The images appear in a small window when clicking on "image", provided your browser is not set to block popups. These images can be zoomed by using the mouse wheel or by clicking on the +/- buttons in the bottom right corner of the image. The links in the last column are to wikipedia pages (two in Chinese).

The digitized book is available at Waseda University, Freer/Sackler, the Met Museum¹, Kanazawa College of Arts, and Archive.org (vol. 1-3, vol. 4-6.)
The British Museum has vol. 1, vol. 5, and vol. 6.

^{1. More conveniently displayed at the Book portal database of the Japanese Art Research Center ↩}

Volume 1

巻１漢流之部：School of Chinese painters

Volume 2

巻２土佐流之部：Tosa school

<sup>5. The name is written 藤原光行 (Fujiwara Mitsuyuki) in the table of contents. But then Mitsuyuki and Tsunetaka are two names of the same artist↩
6. 1 春岸酴驟 - 2 清瑞蛍火 - 3 三室紅楓 - 4 長橋暁雪 - 5　朝日靄暉 - 6 薄暮柴船 - 7 橋姫水社 - 8 釣殿夜月 - 9 扇芝孤松 - 10 槙島曝布 - 11 浮舟古祠 - 12 興聖晩鐘↩
7. Text on the right : 禁中御会所金壁　承和二年巳八月日
    Text on the left : 為朝七尺ノ男目 甬二シ タリ掲布    色 ノ糸二テ獅子ヲ縫タル直 白 キ カラヤノ
   ヲドシ大アラメノヨロ匕甲 獅子ヲカサリ鰭ノ
   皮ノシリザヤ七尺五寸ノ弓卅六指タル黑羽ノ天
   白アシグノ馬金フクリゾノクラ↩
8. The poem is いにしへのならの都のやへさくらけふ九重に匂ひぬるかな This eight-fold cherry of our ancient capital Nara/It blossoms anew, today, in nine-layared splendor.↩
9. The poem is なふしはあさきにひしの紋こん袖衿白こんのはかまくはにあられ下かさね赤しひらおはむらさきだん↩
10. The name is (I assume incorrectly) written 藤原周廣 (Fujiwara Chikahiro) in the table of contents.↩
11. The poem is from chapter 12, entitled 武蔵野 (Musashino) : 武蔵野むさしのはけふはなやきそわかくさのつゆもこもれりわれもこもれり
    O, Musashi Plain/Burn not this day!/Fresh grass,/My man is hidden there,/As, too, am I… ↩
12. First name of Tosa Mitsusuke (土佐光祐)↩
13. = Iwasa Matabei (岩佐 又兵衛)↩</sup>

Volume 3

巻３雪舟家之部：Unkoku-rin school or school of Sesshū

<sup>14. Teizenpuku was strolling in the ravine of Toka and saw an old man in an iron boat ; he asked him for the loan of it, and the old man replied that he might come and ask for it three years later. ↩
15. = Hagetsu Tōsatsu (波月等薩).↩
16. = Untaku Toetsu (雲沢等悦).↩
17. Identification of names : 終南山 Mt. Chung-nan (Shunanzan) 二山 関門 Kanmon 驪山 Mt Li Shan 涇水 Jing river 西囗 根逍 天囗 紫微 Purple Forbidden Enclosure
   阿房宮 Abou temple 天河 銀漢 謹囗水 閣堂 Kaku shrine 咸陽 Kanyu 或山 管宮 九嵭↩</sup>

Other painters of that school :
雲谷等的 Unkoku Tōteki (1606-1664)
雲谷等顔 Unkoku Tōgan (1547–1618) father of Tōeki
雲谷等徽 Unkoku Tōki
雲谷等璠 Unkoku Tōhan, son of Unkoku Tōeki; brother of Tōyō
雲谷等甫 Unkoku Tōho
雲谷等達 Unkoku Tōtetsu (1631– 1683)

Volume 4

巻４古法眼流之部：Kanō (or Kohogen) school

<sup>18. =? Kanō Masunobu (1625-1694)↩
19. It might rather be Yan Zhenqing (顔 真卿, 709-785), Ganshinkei in Japanese. According to legend, a few years after his death a peasant found him playing go with another old man.↩
20. Also written 狩野眞笑↩
21. Student and nephew (or niece) of Kanō Motonobu, also known as Uto Gyoshi or Maejima Sōyū (according to the Met museum).↩
22. Son of Kanō Sōshū.↩</sup>

Ooka Shunboku betrayed the secrets of the Kanō school by reproducing paintings of that school in his book.

Volume 5

巻５探幽流之部：Kanō school

<sup>23. Su Dongpo is the artname of Su Shi. He, his younger brother (Su Zhe) and hist father (Su Xun) were called Sansu (the 3 Su).
   The attribution of the name Su Laoquan to Su Xun is controversial according to the Chinese wikipedia page of Su Xun, it would actually be that of Su Shi.↩
24. The meeting of the 9 elders in Luozhong is reported in chapter 12 of the historical essay 容齋四筆 (four strokes of Rongzhai, the story of Lantian Chengbi) by Song dynasty writer Hong Mai. (see Factpedia (in Chinese).↩
25. To the right Ebisu with a fish and Daikokuten in front of him; to the left Jurōjin with a deer, Fukurokuju and Hotei.↩</sup>

There is a wikipedia page in French about the genealogy of the Kanō school.

Volume 6

巻６雑諸流之部：Miscellaneous schools

<sup>26. Two Haiku by Matsuo Bashō : いざ落花眼裏の埃掃き拾てん and 梅が香にのつと日の出る山路哉  ↩
27. Painter of the Rinpa school↩
28. The signature in the drawing is 大心七十四翁 74-old Daishin, with seal 大心 (Daishin) ↩
29. Hitomaru is drawn as a moji-e (picture drawn with characters)↩
30. The signature in the drawing is 皇都散人全叚ト言者ノ由不詳 ↩
31. The signature in the drawings is 石山三位 Ishiyama, noble of third rank↩</sup>