Bairei Picture Album of One Hundred Birds (Bairei hyakuchō gafu 楳嶺百鳥畫譜) : [volume 3]

Kōno, Bairei, 1844-1895 · 1881 · Japan : [producer not identified] · 17 pictures

Bairei Picture Album of One Hundred Birds is a Japanese woodblock print album of birds, published in 1881 and made by the painter Kōno Bairei (1844–1895) as a pattern book for artists and viewers. Its double-page spreads show single birds posed on flowering branches, reeds, rocks and bamboo in sparse ink and pale colour. A designer could take its economical placement of one bird against a small field of blossom and foliage, with plenty of unpainted paper left open around the subject.

Birds in art · Plants in art · Flowers in art

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