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SESSAI

Birds and flowers, Edo period, Japan, 1791. A white parrot perched on a blossoming branch. The parrot is not native to Japan, but it was imported from as early as the ninth century, when the birds were presented to the imperial court. Parrots remained rare even during the Edo period (1600-1868), but featured at entertainment stalls in several cities. The white parrot was already a popular theme for paintings, but the artist Sessai may well have observed one in real life at one of these stalls. Although Sessai has here followed the thematic tradition of kachôga (bird-and-flower painting), and used conventional monochrome brushwork on the tree, he has adopted a sharply empirical style for the parrot.
JA, JP ADD607 (1979.11-12.01)

Location British Museum/London/Great Britain

Unique Identifier ART211449

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 1859px × 4712px

Photo Credit Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY

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