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楳嶺花鳥画譜 芍薬・鸛(収載資料名:あづまにしきゑ)

楳嶺 · 1883 · 1 picture

A Japanese woodblock print from 1883 by the artist Bairei, held in a collection of ehon picture books, and printed for a general audience of collectors and print lovers. The sheet shows two white cranes with black wing plumes beside a fence, with pink and yellow peonies rising behind them, framed by a printed text panel in the upper left. A designer could take the economical handling of foliage, the pale modelled birds set against flat green leaves, and the way a textual cartouche is integrated into the composition.

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