楳嶺花鳥画譜 梨花・連雀(収載資料名:あづまにしきゑ)
A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book (ehon) of flower-and-bird designs, made by the painter Baiyō and published in 1883 by Ōkura Magobei in Tokyo for a general art-buying readership. The page shows white pear blossom on branching green stems, with two waxwing-like birds perched and flying among the flowers above a pale stream bank with pink blooms and a small rock, framed by a patterned border. A designer could take its airy, sparse composition, the economical use of pale ground and crisp outlined birds, and the way blossom masses are placed diagonally across the page.
