SKU: BA54
Kono Bairei Kacho Gafu 1st Edition, Flowering Kale and Eurasian Magpie
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Kono Bairei Kacho Gafu 1st Edition 1883
Flowering Kale and Eurasian Magpie
9 ½ by 14 ½ inches
BA54 $275
Bairei was a highly renowned artist in the bird and flower painting school (kacho-ga) in Kyoto. Instrumental in establishing the Kyoto School of Painting, he finally retired to open his own studio to others. His woodblock prints of birds and flowers are among the most revered and famous in Japan, where Bairei is compared to Audubon. He placed his subjects in their natural surroundings in compositions of great beauty, skill and accuracy. It was the height of the Japanese woodblock printing of the late 1800’s (Meiji Period).