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a Koryusai kachoga print |
Birds & Flowers
Kachoga, pictures of birds & flowers (it's not clear to me why they are so inextricable in Japanese art), was a delightful strand of Japanese arts for a very long time. It seems to have been more often a starting point or occasional divertissement for a lot of great print artists (including Utamaro and Hokusai) than their major career, but there are artists for whom this was their peak - Koryusai would be my favourite example here - and there is plenty of lovely work around, just behind the ranks of the most commonly seen subjects.