True Depictions of Bird and Flower Pictures (Kachōe shashin zui) : [volume 2]

Kitao, Shigemasa, 1739-1820 · 1805 · Edo: Nishimura Sōshichi 西村宗七, Osaka et al. · 4 pictures

A Japanese woodblock picture book of birds and flowers, published in Edo in 1805 by Nishimura Sōshichi and sold also in Osaka, made by the artist Kitao Shigemasa for a general audience of artists and collectors. Its pages show finely outlined birds perched on flowering branches and leaves, drawn with spare, economical line on plain paper, a model a designer could borrow for minimal botanical and bird motifs or for loose, open linework.

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