BAIREI K.
Bairei Kachõ Gafu (Bairei's album of flower and bird pictures).
Tokyo, Okura Shoten, Meiji 32 [1899]. 2 volumes. Folio (370 x245mm). With 50 full-page coloured woodblock printed plates (on handmade paper). In original stitched binding.

One of the most attractive late Meiji works on flowers and birds and one of the very few Japanese works to render birds at such a large format. "This work is considered one of the most beautiful of the later fully colored ehon. Its extremely decorative style is in marked constrast with the same artist's earlier collection of chrysanthenum pictures, in which the tints vary only from black to grey and from deep orange ro very pale orange" (Bartlett & Shohara 96). Each volume Spring & Summer and Fall & Winter consists of 25 images. Kõno Bairei was one of the last of the artists who illustrated plants for wood-block printing and whose work is considered by critics as important. Mitchell 217; Bartlett & Shohara 96; Brindle & White, Talking in flowers: Japanese botanical art, 22.
 

EUR 3,300.00
USD 4,150.00

Item nr. 7693

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