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A single flower – the chrysanthemum – was Bairei’s subject in a woodblock-printed book entitled Bairei Kiku Hyakushu (i.e., One Hundred Varieties of Chrysanthemums by Bairei). The book’s three volumes were published between 1891 and 1896. Twenty-two pictures included in volume chi (i.e., earth) are shown in this gallery. Click on a picture to enlarge it. Some of these pictures provide a close-up view of a particular horticultural variety of chrysanthemum while in other pictures chrysanthemums are shown as part of a scene. Bairei drew the shapes of chrysanthemums and other objects accurately but colored them using only shades of grey or red as he did in other picture books. To see pictures from all three volumes click here.
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