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ingly working in a more abbreviated
literati mode. Traces of Nagasaki-style
realism remain in the naturalistic
treatment of the bamboo, but it is
mitigated by the combination of more
schematic methods and motifs from
Chinese painting manuals such as the
Mustard Seed Garden of Painting, used
for the trees, rocks, and hills. Buson
made optimum use of the luminosity
of the satin ground to achieve the
atmospheric effect. The screens are
suffused with the bucolic poetic
sentiment for which he was later to
become famous. MT