A Collection of Flowers and Birds (Kacho zukushi)

Arts of Asia

Edo period (1615-1868), 1683

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

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.

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Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Hishikawa Moronobu
Title: A Collection of Flowers and Birds (Kacho zukushi)
Place: Japan (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1678-1688
Medium: Woodblock-printed book, sumizuri-e
Dimensions: 25.5 × 18.5 cm (10 1/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 2022.1407
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Mrs. Louise Norton Brown, Japan, c. 1913 to at least 1915 [according to, “Preface” and “Chapter XII”, in Louise Norton Brown, Block Printing and Book-Illustration in Japan From the Earliest Period to the Twentieth Century; this and the following according to Frederick Gookin, “Preface,” in Kenji Toda, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese and Chinese Illustrated Books in the Ryerson Library at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1931), iv, and Accession Book: 1-62, 112, 1884?-1955, Ryerson Art Library, Art Institute of Chicago]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Lake Geneva, WI, 1926; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926-1932.

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