

The artwork features a painting of two birds flying over a plant with green leaves and red and white flowers. The painting's background includes a beige sky and mountains. The painting is framed by a wide, light-brown border with a lighter brown inner border. A black background surrounds the painting on the left and right sides, with a small, vertical, gray and white measurement ruler on the left side. The painting's artist is Shikibu Terutada, and the title is "Birds and Flowers of Summer and Autumn".
Artwork Details
- Date
- mid-16th century
- Medium
- Pair of hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- Japan
- Dimensions
- 468 × 624 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
- View original
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