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

Kōno, Bairei, 1844-1895 · 1881 · Tokyo : Ōkura Magobei 大倉孫兵衛 · 7 pictures

A Meiji-period Japanese woodblock picture album of birds, printed in Tokyo in 1881 by Ōkura Magobei and made by the artist Kōno Bairei (1844–1895) as one volume of a hundred-bird series for a general audience of painters and collectors. Its double-page spreads show single birds in ink-line and wash, many perched on flowering branches or flying past bare twigs, with generous empty paper around them, a clean approach a designer could borrow for minimal natural motifs and negative space.

Birds in art · Plants in art · Flowers in art

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