Shashin kachō zue
Publisher: Okadaya
Published: 1805
Place of publication: Ōsaka
Language: jpn
Subjects: Flower; Birds; Pictorial works
Description: This is the first series of this title. The volumes consist of hand-colored paintings which deal with flowers and birds. The author was famous genre painter of the late Edo period and the progenitor of the Kitao School.
Notes: Author and imprint taken from last page. The title page consists of a poem in Chinese praising the work.

Text and illustrations printed within black-ruled border.

Printed on double leaves.

Illustraions are hand-colored wood-block prints.

Kokusho sōmokuroku. Vol. 2, p. 167. Lists this title as "Kachō shashin zue."

Bound in traditional, Japanese, side-sewn, blue, paper; title labels on upper covers.