Morinori Sekichūshi edited a 1729 picture book entitled Gazu Hyakkachō (i.e., Pictures of One Hundred Flowers and Birds). Its one hundred pictures, shown in this gallery, were woodblock-printed, black-and-white versions of paintings by Tan’yū Kanō and Tsunenobu Kanō who were two prominent members of the most important family of Japanese painters of the time. Family members were commissioned by the government to produce paintings with Chinese themes, including flower-and-bird pictures. Kanō artists adopted the style of the Che School of Chinese painting for these flower-and-bird pictures. Click on a picture to enlarge it.
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