Bird and Flower

 

Bird and Flower by Tsubaki Chinzan
Edo Period, Japan

Tsubaki Chinzan (1801–1854) began his artistic training under Kaneko Kinryō and later mastered the delicate “boneless” technique—painting without contour lines—developed by the Chinese artist Yun Nantian. Renowned for his mastery in the kacho-ga (bird-and-flower) genre, Chinzan was widely celebrated in his time as the foremost painter of flowering plants.