Bairei Picture Album of One Hundred Birds (Bairei hyakuchō gafu 楳嶺百鳥畫譜) : [volume 2]
Bairei Picture Album of One Hundred Birds, volume 2, is a Japanese woodblock picture album of birds, compiled by the painter Kōno Bairei and published in Tokyo in 1881 by Ōkura Magobei. Its pages show birds in ink and light colour among plants, reeds, and blossoms, with spare backgrounds. A designer could take its economical placement of a single bird against empty paper, and its loose, observed poses of sparrows, ducks, and herons.
![Picture 1 of 7 from Bairei Picture Album of One Hundred Birds (Bairei hyakuchō gafu 楳嶺百鳥畫譜) : [volume 2] (1881), leaf 5](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9593-5-1.webp)
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![Picture 3 of 7 from Bairei Picture Album of One Hundred Birds (Bairei hyakuchō gafu 楳嶺百鳥畫譜) : [volume 2] (1881), leaf 11](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9593-11-1.webp)
![Picture 4 of 7 from Bairei Picture Album of One Hundred Birds (Bairei hyakuchō gafu 楳嶺百鳥畫譜) : [volume 2] (1881), leaf 13](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9593-13-1.webp)
![Picture 5 of 7 from Bairei Picture Album of One Hundred Birds (Bairei hyakuchō gafu 楳嶺百鳥畫譜) : [volume 2] (1881), leaf 25](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9593-25-1.webp)
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![Picture 7 of 7 from Bairei Picture Album of One Hundred Birds (Bairei hyakuchō gafu 楳嶺百鳥畫譜) : [volume 2] (1881), leaf 27](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_9593-27-1.webp)