num_pages: 224
description: Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom aims not at technical artistic training but at the training of artistic not how to hold a brush but rather how to really see a plum blossom.First published in A.D. 1238, Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom may be the world's first printed book of art and literature; it is presented here in a fine bilingual edition. Red Pine's delicate, graceful, and learned translation of the historic Confucian work is the first ever into English.
language: English
title: Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom
titlecomplete: Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom
genres: China, Poetry, Art
ratings_count: 39
publisher: Mercury House