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[[Image:Mustardseed.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A copy of the Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual, in the collection of the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]].]]
*''Published: [[1679]] (first volume, in China); [[1746]] (first Japanese edition)''
*''Other Names'': 芥子園画譜 ''(kaishien gafu)''
*''Chinese/Japanese'': 芥子園画伝 ''(Jiè zǐ yuán huà zhuàn / kaishien gaden)''

The ''Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual'' was a painting manual, in four volumes, originally published in [[Qing Dynasty]] China, and profoundly influential in both China and Japan.

The manual was put together by brothers Wang Gai<!--王概-->, Wang Shi<!--王蓍-->, and Wang Nie<!--王皋-->, and named after the Nanjing garden possessed by their patron, Li Yu<!--李漁-->. The images were based on paintings by Li's son-in-law, the late [[Ming Dynasty]] painter Li Liufang<!--李流芳-->, and the first volume was completed in [[1679]].

The book begins with a brief summary of the history of Chinese landscape painting, and an explanation of the elements of painting, before moving into examples of the various depictions of trees, rocks & mountains, and human figures, ending with reproductions of famous paintings since the [[Song Dynasty]]. 

The manual was first published in Japan in [[1746]], and quickly became extremely influential.

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