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A work made of woodblock-printed book, sumizuri-e.

A Collection of Flowers and Birds (Kacho zukushi)

Edo period (1615-1868), 1683

attrib, Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣 Japanese, 1618-1694

Japan

This volume of ten sheets depicts twenty-six birds and flowers, with extraordinary attention to detail. Here we see a group of cranes at the seashore.

Woodblock-printed book, sumizuri-e

Arts of Asia