Senryudo gafu - Album de dessins de plantes sauvages et d'insectes - Estampes Edo

FIRST VOLUME (out of five) of Senryudo Gafu Sōka Mushi No Bu, Album of Wild Plants and Insects by Kiyoshi Takizawa.

Although published during the Meiji era, this very elegant collection of prints remains characteristic of Edo period Japan, its depictions recalling Jakuchu's art, where plants, insects, and small vertebrates intertwine, often near water sources. Everything within it is suspended, subtle, and gentle, capturing the fleetingness of a dragonfly or butterfly in flight, the noble heaviness of a toad, and the beauty of human intervention (an Ikebana composition, a ladle in its basin, etc.).

A rare example of this exquisite testament to Japanese print art.