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楳嶺花鳥画譜 萱草・八哥鳥(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 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.

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