Kōno Bairei Quail Prints – Set of 2 | 1881 Japanese Woodblock Bird Art

You're looking at a beautiful pair of Japanese woodblock prints from our
collection of original 1881 works by the noted artist Kōno Bairei, created for
one of his best-known publications, 'One Hundred Birds'. This set of two
features his studies of the Japanese quail (uzura) — one print showing a pair
sheltering beneath a flowering stem, the other a single bird feeding head-down
among the grasses with its companion just entering the frame.

Most of the bird species throughout this collection were native to Japan, with a
few domesticated and some imported cage birds.

Bairei was born and lived in Kyoto. He was apprenticed to the Maruyama printer
Nakajima Raishō at the age of eight. He was a pupil of the Shijō artist Shiokawa
Bunrin and followed the Nanga school tradition. He established the Kyoto
Prefectural School of Painting before opening his own studio to students and
retiring from teaching.

Sizes: 12" x 18", 16" x 24", 20" x 30", 24" x 36"

Our posters are produced using the Giclée printing technique; Giclée prints are
made using pigment-based inks. They have the sharpest detail and highest
resolution, displaying a full-color spectrum. Giclées capture every shade of an
original work.