Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Ito Jakuchu

Monograph published on occasion of the exhibition at The National Gallery of Art. Ito Jakuchu (1716–1800), a wealthy wholesaler and talented painter, is, in Japan, the most recognized artist of the premodern era. His thirty-scroll set of bird-and-flower paintings titled Colorful Realm of Living Beings is a renowned cultural treasure, one of the most beautiful and skilled examples of how the natural world is depicted and symbolized in Japanese art. Presenting gorgeous flora and fauna in meticulous detail, the scrolls are reunited here with Jakuchu’s triptych of the Buddha Sakyamuni. Includes essays by Yukio Lippit, Ota Aya, and Oka Yasuhiro. 

Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Binding is solid.