A Collection of Flowers and Birds (Kacho zukushi)
Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, 1618-1694)
Edo period (1615-1868), 1683
- Medium
- Woodblock-printed book, sumizuri-e
- Classification
- Book
- Dimensions
- 25.5 × 18.5 cm (10 1/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
