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Picture Album of Birds and Flowers (Seitei Kachō gafu) : [volume 1]

Watanabe, Seitei, 1851-1918 · 1890 · Tokyo: Ōkura Magobei 大倉孫兵衛 · 8 pictures

Picture Album of Birds and Flowers is a Meiji-era Japanese woodblock picture book by Watanabe Seitei, published in Tokyo in 1890 by Ōkura Magobei as a model collection for students and craftsmen. Its pages show small birds and blossoming branches drawn in loose ink line with pale washes of colour, set on open, unframed or lightly framed paper.

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