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楳嶺花鳥画譜 梨花・連雀(収載資料名:あづまにしきゑ)

楳嶺 · 1883 · 大倉孫兵衛 · 1 picture

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) of flower-and-bird designs, made by the painter Baiyō and published in 1883 by Ōkura Magobei in Tokyo for a general art-buying readership. The page shows white pear blossom on branching green stems, with two waxwing-like birds perched and flying among the flowers above a pale stream bank with pink blooms and a small rock, framed by a patterned border. A designer could take its airy, sparse composition, the economical use of pale ground and crisp outlined birds, and the way blossom masses are placed diagonally across the page.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library