Myriad Birds, Insects and Flowers - Ueno Setsugaku Art Print

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Your print arrives framed and ready to hang, so it goes straight from the box to your wall.

Chevron cut wooden frames make a timeless statement in three distinctive colors: black, white and natural. Each frame is made of sustainably sourced FSC® certified knotless pine. And your artwork is protected behind ultra-clear perspex glaze that’s lighter than glass and shatter-resistant.

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Luscious artist-grade cotton canvas, hand-stretched and finely textured, gives every detail depth and precision, catching light and color with striking clarity. While a precisely measured floating frame leaves a slim gap around the canvas, so it seems to hover with a sleek, gallery-worthy effect. Finished with your choice of frame color — black, white or natural — made from sustainably sourced FSC® certified knotless pine.

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Forget 4 color CMYK. Giclée layers up to 12 — alive with deeper shadows, richer highlights and multidimensional contrasts. Pro-lab printing process helps art stay bold & breathtaking for up to 100 years. And the neo-pigment, water-based inks are 100% non-hazardous and toxin-free.

About the Artwork

Spring forgot to leave in Ueno Setsugaku's Myriad Birds, Insects and Flowers, and summer showed up anyway. Cherry blossom crowds the top branches of this Edo period hanging scroll. Morning glory climbs through peonies. Autumn chrysanthemums flare at lower left, and a periwinkle iris keeps company with the cinnabar seals opposite.

In fact, Setsugaku paints the whole year at once. Two white pheasants stoop through the flowerbed, their plumes drawn in ink hairlines so fine they look combed. Soot-black magpies squabble in the grass below. Golden orioles flash from sage leaves overhead, and emerald jewel beetles crawl the foliage like dropped earrings.

He learned this packed exuberance in Kyoto under Yamamoto Baiitsu, whose Chinese-flavored bird-and-flower painting taught him to fill a surface without choking it. Ink and color on silk give this kachō-ga its honeyed ocher ground. Celadon hydrangeas cool the center. Near the bottom edge a lone dragonfly is still deciding where to land.

Hang this Japanese scroll painting print by a window, and watch its tea-gold silk take the late light like an ember that never went out.

Origin Story

Kachō-ga, literally "flower-bird painting," is the Japanese art of the living world held still for a breath. Rooted in Song and Yuan Chinese painting, the genre took hold in the Muromachi period, when Zen monks brushed bamboo, plum and geese in monochrome ink. By the fifteenth century, professional painters answered with polychrome folding screens where birds and blossoms travel across the four seasons.

The Kano school fused Chinese ink brushwork with yamato-e's flat colour and gold leaf, blazing across Momoyama castle interiors. Edo brought two currents: the decorative grasses of Rinpa and the naturalistic observation of the Maruyama-Shijō school. Ukiyo-e artists like Utagawa Hiroshige carried the motif into woodblock prints as kachō-e, and shin hanga artist Ohara Koson and painter Imao Keinen kept it singing into the twentieth century, each pairing of bird and bloom a coded seasonal poem.

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