Kaihaku raikin zui (Illustrated catalogue of birds from overseas)

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KITAO MASAYOSHI (1764-1824)
Kaihaku raikin zui (Illustrated catalogue of birds from overseas)
Woodblock prints, twelve sheets from the illustrated book Kaihaku raikin zui (Illustrated catalogue of birds from overseas), published by Matsumoto Zenbei, 1790
Horizontal oban: 9 ½ x 14 ¾ in. (24 x 37.5 cm.) each approx.
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A complete book with contents page and publishing information in the collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (53.453).
For a similar set of birds and flowers prints in the Rockefeller Collection, see the exhibition catalogue Yomigaeru bi, hana to tori to: Rokkufera ukiyoe kurekushon ten (Reviving beauty, flowers and birds: Ukiyo-e from the Rockefeller Collection) (Japan: Bunyusha, 1990), pp. 18-19.

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