Trees and Bird

Trees and a bird — a kachō-ga composition in Kimura's contemporary woodblock style that places a bird within the arboreal setting of its natural habitat. The combination of tree form and bird creates a compositional structure that allowed Kimura to explore the visual relationships between the massive, fixed form of the tree and the small, dynamic form of the bird, the contrast in scale emphasizing both the tree's solidity and the bird's vivid particularity.