Lit. Painting Laws: Methods of Coloring, a mid-18th-century painting manual edited by Sugaodō Yūsashi 菅生堂祐佐子 with illustrations by Nishikawa Sukenobu 西川祐信 (1671-1751). Published in Genbun 元文 3 (1738) in Osaka, it is attached to the Kano school-book Ehon wabigoto 画本倭比事 (Picture Book of Things Japanese). The work includes information on famous places, old poems, and various legends of Japan, consciously avoiding the immortals and Confucian sages associated with the Chinese subjects found in many Kano school *Kano-ha 狩野派 paintings. In one chapter, Sukenobu explains that, in general, old paintings are based on Chinese pictures and therefore the themes are Chinese and inappropriate for Japanese painting. Instead, Sukenobu proposes that Japanese painters should paint Japanese subjects. As such, Gahō saishikihō is an important early manifesto of *yamato-e やまと絵 and *ukiyo-e 浮世絵.