Note: We would like to include all of the known artworks by Rakusan in this catalogue, but not all of the illustrations and discussions are available for presentation at this time. As other sections are prepared they will be added to the site. Rakusan.net currently illustrates at least one image of all of the known Rakusan woodblock prints in general circulation. If you have information about any print designs not shown, or about any original paintings of any subject, please contact us.

All of the prints shown actually have margins. However the margins in these illustrations have been cropped to display the design portions of the images at a larger scale. This cropping artificially exaggerates the differences in scale among the different fan design silhouettes. It also truncates the title-captions and watermarks of the 100 Series designs. All of the original title-captions will be illustrated in a separate file in a later addition to this site.

Most of the original paintings and woodblock prints produced by Rakusan are in sets or series. If his original titles and arrangements are known, this catalogue uses them; otherwise titles and arrangements are supplied here as indicated. The numberings for the 100 Series and for the 36 Set are original to Rakusan and indicate the order in which the woodblock prints were first published.

To open individual galleries, click on the thumbnail illustration in the following chart. Within each gallery, to view a larger image, click on the illustration.

galleries	transliteration [working title]	size	number	type
	楽山花鳥画譜 Rakuzan Kachou Gafu [100 Series]	dai oban	100	polychrome, life-size birds usually with flowers
	素描 Sobyou ['Rough Sketches', 100 Series Alternates]	dai oban	36	two-tone black and gray; same subjects as 100 Series
	篁子生画選 Koushisei Gasen [36 Set]	oban	36	polychrome, various kachou subjects
	篁子生石摺画選 Koushisei Ishizuri Gasen [Fan Designs]	oban	180 +	monochrome black fan silhouettes (as negatives); same subjects as 36 Set
	[Souvenir Prints]	chuban	6 +	polychrome, simple designs including landscapes and cartoons
	[Winter Cards]	greeting cards	7	polychrome, various subjects all with snow
	[Green Peacock]	o-hosoban	1	polychrome, antique style
	洋草花譜 You Kusabana Fu [Western Flowers]	oban	?	polychrome, garden flowers; authorship uncertain

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