Pair of white egrets., Ohara Koson, artist, 1930, Tokyo, woodcut, Japanese KachÅ-e ‘bird-and-flower pictures’ offered print lovers a charming antidote to the melodrama of kabuki-e. Early kachÅ-e drew on Chinese conventions and aimed to capture the spirit of nature in connection with the seasons, poetic allusions, or religious values. Bird images often conveyed symbolic meanings – tsuru, the crane, for example, was associated with longevity. By the 20th century, the simpler pleasures of enjoying intimate views of nature had somewhat supplanted these metaphoric associations.
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