Kono Bairei Album of 100 Birds 1st 1881 Japan Meiji Woodblock Print Art Painting

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Please note that the shipping price listed above for the U.S. is wrong. I live in Denmark and shipping to the U.S. costs more than $4 (see below). Please wait for my invoice before you pay. 幸野楳嶺 ( Kō no Bairei): 楳嶺百鳥画譜 (Bairei Hyakuch ō Gafu , Bairei's Album of 100 Birds) Volume 3: 人 (Hito, People) Kyoto 1881: Okura Magobei 1st edition Traditional Japanese string binding in soft covers (fukuro-toji) 31 woodcuts in color (12 of them on two adjoining pages) 24.7 x 16.4 x 1.1 cm Language: Japanese Weight: 166 g Writing in 1897, Edward Strange praised Hyakuch ō Gafu as "perhaps the best illustrations of bird-life ever cut on wood." This book used to belong to the notable Danish historian Palle Lauring (1909-1996). Kōno Bairei ( 幸野楳嶺 , 1844 - 1895) was a Japanese painter, book illustrator and art teacher. He was born (as Yasuda Bairei) and lived in Kyoto. He was a member of the Ukiyo-e school, and was a master of kacho-e painting (depictions of birds and flowers) in the Meiji period of Japan. Unlike the majority of ukiyo-e artists, he was trained as a classical Japanese painter. Bairei co-founded the Kyoto Prefectural Painting School in 1878. The Kyoto University of Arts which operates today has its origins in this school. Hyakuch ō Gafu ( Bairei's Album of 100 Birds) was first published in three volumes in 1881 by Okura read more

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