Shakuyaku kana ari – Vintage Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Shakuyaku kana ari comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Shakuyaku kana ari
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A canary perches beside a blossoming peony in this vertical chuban print, a pairing of bird and flower that was a favorite subject in early nineteenth-century Edo. The format is called kishi-e, after the Kishi school of painting, whose naturalistic animal and flower pictures were widely copied in woodblock prints. The sheet is a later impression, and its edges have been trimmed, so some of the original margins are gone. Its date falls in the early 1830s, when bird-and-flower designs were especially popular with townspeople who wanted decorative images for their homes.
| Created / published | [1833 or 1834] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color ; 19.2 x 17.4 cm. |
| Genre | organized by the Library of Congress, 2001. |
| Notes | Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Vertical Chuban Kishikie. Later impression, cut down. DLC Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Canaries--Japan--1830-1840. Peonies--Japan--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,621 × 4,515 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221959 |
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