Bairei Picture Album of One Hundred Birds (Bairei hyakuchō gafu 楳嶺百鳥畫譜) : [volume 1]

Kōno, Bairei, 1844-1895 · 1884 · Japan : [producer not identified] · 18 pictures

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture album of birds, made by the painter Kōno Bairei and published in 1884 in Japan as a model book for artists studying bird and plant drawing. Its pages pair single birds with branches, reeds, and flowers in ink-line woodcut style, and a designer could draw on their economical outlines, open negative space, and the way a single pose fills a page with a few lines of foliage.

Birds in art · Plants in art · Flowers in art

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