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Textiles · Animals · Catalog HV6FUMWR
Unknown creator · c. 1700–1868
This scene of two Chinese pheasants with a flowering plum tree (a sign of the arrival of spring in Japan) is not painted. All the lines and surfaces are created by colored threads carefully stitched together into the silk. Consequently, the surface appears quite different from paintings on paper.
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