Japanese Woodblock Bird Prints The country had pursued material

The country had pursued material comfort and profit until it settled into a process as automatic and mechanical as any of Webster's washing machines

This volume reproduces one such collection ― an extremely rare and valuable portfolio of 376 motifs assembled more than a century ago by two French Jesuit scholars

This landmark volume was first published to provide both an overview of the field

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Japanese Woodblock Bird Prints The country had pursued materialIn the 1880s, an economic boom in Japan encouraged a renaissance of traditional color woodblock painting. During this prosperous period, a well born painter named Numata Kash created A Picture Book of Birds. Kash's three volume series blended the contemporary interest in woodblock prints with East Asia's centuries old fascination with artistic depictions of birds and flowers. His colorful books received a lavish production from a Tokyo printer that