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This detail is included for the Natural History and Naturalism Exhibition as an example of a botanical representation being repurposed by Edo artists as a floral motif. It is also included to emphasize Itō Jakuchū's successful natural science…

This detail is included for the Natural History and Naturalism Exhibition as an example of a botanical representation being repurposed by Edo artists as a floral motif. It is also included to emphasize Itō Jakuchū's successful natural science…

details taken from "Phoenixes," Maruyama Ōkyo (円山 応挙, or 圓山 應舉) c. 1783 and Maruyama Ōkyo's old sketch books

details taken from Gary W. Kaiser "Two Different Methods of Lowering the Head in Extremely Long-Necked Birds" (The Inner Bird: Anatomy and Evolution, 2007), "Old Pine Tree and White Phoenix," Itō Jakuchū (伊藤 若冲). c. 1765, and "Pair of Phoenixes and…

details taken from Gary W. Kaiser "The Basic Arrangement of Toes in Birds" (The Inner Bird: Anatomy and Evolution, 2007), "Old Pine Tree and White Phoenix," Itō Jakuchū (伊藤 若冲). c. 1765, and "Pair of Phoenixes and Rising Sun," Itō Jakuchū (伊藤 若冲). c.…

details taken from "Phoenixes," Maruyama Ōkyo (円山 応挙, or 圓山 應舉) c. 1783 and "Golden Pheasants and Snow," Itō Jakuchū (伊藤 若冲). c. 1761 - 1765

details taken from "Phoenixes," Maruyama Ōkyo (円山 応挙, or 圓山 應舉) c. 1783 and "Peacock, Hen, and Peonies," Maruyama Ōkyo (円山 応挙, or 圓山 應舉). 1776

One of a pair of six-fold standing screens with gold leaf, this set of screens depicts a different bird, flower, and month on each panel. Examples include mandarin ducks with snow, cranes and bamboo, or pheasants with tall grass. This image is…

Two pheasants, one male and one female, perch in a snow-covered pine tree surrounded by out-of-season peony blossoms. Itō Jakuchū used the snow to make "windows" that surround some of the delicate peony blossoms. Jakuchū depicted the snow using two…

details taken from "Old Pine Tree and White Phoenix," Itō Jakuchū (伊藤 若冲). c. 1765, "Pair of Phoenixes and Rising Sun," Itō Jakuchū (伊藤 若冲). c. 1755, "White Elephant and Other Beasts," Itō Jakuchū (伊藤 若冲), c. 1770 - 1780, and "Plum Blossoms and…