Picture Album of Birds and Flowers (Seitei Kachō gafu) : [volume 1]
Picture Album of Birds and Flowers is a Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book by Watanabe Seitei, published in Tokyo in 1890 by Ōkura Magobei as a model collection for students and craftsmen. Its pages show small birds and blossoming branches drawn in loose ink line with pale washes of colour, set on open, unframed or lightly framed paper.
![Picture 1 of 8 from Picture Album of Birds and Flowers (Seitei Kachō gafu) : [volume 1] (1890), leaf 5](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18722-5-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 8 from Picture Album of Birds and Flowers (Seitei Kachō gafu) : [volume 1] (1890), leaf 9](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18722-9-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 8 from Picture Album of Birds and Flowers (Seitei Kachō gafu) : [volume 1] (1890), leaf 12](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18722-12-1.webp)
![Picture 4 of 8 from Picture Album of Birds and Flowers (Seitei Kachō gafu) : [volume 1] (1890), leaf 14](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18722-14-1.webp)
![Picture 5 of 8 from Picture Album of Birds and Flowers (Seitei Kachō gafu) : [volume 1] (1890), leaf 19](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18722-19-1.webp)
![Picture 6 of 8 from Picture Album of Birds and Flowers (Seitei Kachō gafu) : [volume 1] (1890), leaf 20](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18722-20-1.webp)
![Picture 7 of 8 from Picture Album of Birds and Flowers (Seitei Kachō gafu) : [volume 1] (1890), leaf 23](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18722-23-1.webp)
![Picture 8 of 8 from Picture Album of Birds and Flowers (Seitei Kachō gafu) : [volume 1] (1890), leaf 27](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_18722-27-1.webp)