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, and a major expansion is underway as of early 2011. 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 also artificially exaggerates the differences in scale among the different fan design silhouettes. It deliberately truncates the title-captions and watermarks of the 100 Series designs and a few others, but supplemental detail images of the original title-captions are now being added in the current 2011 expansion.

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 Series 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 and additional details, click on the thumbnail illustration.

galleries	titles, transliterations, & [working titles]	size	design totals	descriptive comments
	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 Series]	oban	36	polychrome, various kachou subjects
	篁子生石摺画選 Koushisei Ishizuri Gasen [Fan Design Series, Fan Designs]	oban	180+	monochrome black fan silhouettes (as negatives); same subjects as 36 Series
	[Winter Cards]	greeting cards	7	polychrome, various subjects all with snow
	[Souvenir Prints]	chuban	6+	polychrome, simple designs including landscapes and cartoons

galleries	titles, transliterations, & [working titles]	size	design totals	descriptive comments
	[Green Peacock]	o-hosoban	1	polychrome, antique style; *not included in family archives
	洋草花譜 You Souka Fu [Western Flowers Series]	oban	49+	polychrome, garden flowers; *authorship of individual prints uncertain but includes some designs by Rakusan and others by So-un; published by Maria Gabo, Kyoto (not by Rakusan Studio) [Plus a supplemental set of 15 related designs]
	[Hodo/Takemura Floral Series]	oban	18+	polychrome, garden flowers; *designs by Hodo (no designs by Rakusan); published by Takemura Hideo, Yokohama (not by Rakusan Studio); included here only because of frequent confusion with preceding series. [An additional 8 designs in a contemporary Hodo series unrelated to the other series here are also included as an addendum on this subpage.]

RAKUSAN ORIGINAL PAINTINGS & SCROLLS
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galleries	titles, transliterations, & [working titles]	size	design totals	descriptive comments
	[Small Kyoto Winter Landscapes]	chuban	12	11 brown, white, and blue paintings on paper; 1 polychrome additional version