Color woodcut, ink, paper, 27.5x37.5 cm, plant name in Japanese in the margin
The work is from an album entitled: Seiyo kusabana zufu (Illustrated Album of Western Plants, Part V) published during the artist's lifetime by Unsodo in Kyoto in 1917.
Tanigami Konan (1879-1928) was a painter and textile designer active in Osaka. He was born in Hyogo Prefecture and is revered in Japan as an outstanding flower painter. He gained recognition for creating five volumes of albums of woodcuts depicting Western plants. These albums were published as woodcuts by the renowned Unsodo publishing house in Kyoto. Pieces of these albums are kept in the esteemed collections of the British Library and the British Museum in London.
