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Japonica, Bell Flowers, and Anemone by Tachibana Yasukuni — Japanese Woodblock-printed book illustration; ink on paper, 1755

Japonica, Bell Flowers, and Anemone

by Tachibana Yasukuni

Date:
1755
Medium:
Woodblock-printed book illustration; ink on paper

Description

Two adjacent botanical panels in black ink on cream-toned paper, each framed by a ruled border and labeled with vertical Japanese characters and plant names. The left panel shows an aster-like flower with globular seed heads and deeply lobed foliage beside a tall leafy stem bearing tubular, bell-shaped blossoms with speckled throats; the right panel pairs a shorter stem of similar bell-shaped flowers with a clump of long, blade-like leaves topped by a slender spike of small blossoms. The linework is fine and uncolored, rendering each plant with botanical clarity against the plain background — consistent with a 1755 woodblock-printed book illustration by Tachibana Yasukuni titled "Japonica, Bell Flowers, and Anemone."

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