楳嶺花鳥画譜 萱草・八哥鳥(収載資料名:あづまにしきゑ)
A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock print album page from 1883 by the artist Baiyō (楳嶺), published by Ōkura Magobei for a market of collectors of ehon picture books. The image shows two dark mynah-like birds on a stream bank beside yellow day lilies, pink flowering sprays and irises, with a red title cartouche and calligraphic text at lower left. A designer might take its flat colour masses, the dark birds set against bright yellow blossoms, and the economical framing of a single plant group by water.
