Art Institute of Chicago
A Collection of Flowers and Birds (Kacho zukushi)
attrib, Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣LinkedCulture matchlcp-70a1467c0ee2
- Date
- Edo period (1615-1868), 1683
- Medium
- Woodblock-printed book, sumizuri-e
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 188952
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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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- Credit line
- Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Provenance
- 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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- Object type
- AAT300028051
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