Brown-eared Bulbul and Rosa Rugosa, from Pictorial Monograph of Birds (Shūchō gafu)
聚鳥畫譜 — 鵯と浜茄子
by Numata Kashū
- Date:
- 1885
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print from a book; ink and color on paper
聚鳥畫譜 — 鵯と浜茄子
by Numata Kashū
Brown-eared Bulbul and Rosa Rugosa is a second plate in Numata Kashū's Shūchō gafu (1885) devoted to the hiyodori (brown-eared bulbul), this time paired with hamanasu (Rosa rugosa, the coastal beach rose) rather than with winter holly. The pairing places the bird in a different seasonal and topographic register — late spring and summer, along the windswept dunes and rocky shores of northern Honshū and Hokkaidō, where Rosa rugosa is one of the characteristic flowering shrubs of the salt-tolerant coastal flora. Kashū's drawing follows the close-observation discipline that distinguishes the Shūchō gafu throughout: the bird's posture, the structure of its primary feathers, and the relationship of its beak to the flower it is presumably approaching are all rendered with naturalist's care, while the composition still organizes itself along the long diagonal of the flowering stem in the older decorative kachō-e manner. Together with the holly plate, this image shows how Kashū used the bulbul — a familiar, common species — to demonstrate the album's range across the Japanese ecological year.
聚鳥畫譜 — 鵯と柊
1885
Color woodblock print from a book; ink and color on paper
聚鳥畫譜 — 蒿雀と葦
1885
Color woodblock print from a book; ink and color on paper
聚鳥畫譜 — 鷲と荒海
1885
Color woodblock print from a book; ink and color on paper
聚鳥畫譜
1885, first month
Polychrome woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Brown-eared Bulbul and Rosa Rugosa, from Pictorial Monograph of Birds (Shūchō gafu) (聚鳥畫譜 — 鵯と浜茄子) was created by Numata Kashū (沼田荷舟) in 1885.
Brown-eared Bulbul and Rosa Rugosa, from Pictorial Monograph of Birds (Shūchō gafu) depicts birds & flowers.
