Styles Genres Museums Artists Support

An open visual arts database with 825,000+ artworks, 75,000+ artists, and 750+ styles spanning centuries of human creativity.

Browse

Styles
Genres
Museums
Artists
Favorites

Popular Styles

Impressionism
Romanticism
Surrealism
Pop Art
Cubism
Realism

Museums

Art Institute of Chicago
MoMA
Rijksmuseum
Cleveland Museum of Art
The MET
Louvre

VisualArtsDB is free and open for everyone.

Support the project

© 2026 VisualArtsDB

Kachō shashin zui (Album of birds and flowers) by Kitao Shigemasa — VisualArtsDB

Kachō shashin zui (Album of birds and flowers)

Kachō shashin zui (Album of birds and flowers)

Kitao Shigemasa

1805–1827

Medium: Woodblock printed book (3 volumes); ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 22.5 x 15.7 x 1.3 cm (8 7/8 x 6 3/16 x 1/2 in.)
Genre: Print
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

Tags

Japanese

More by Kitao Shigemasa

A Famous Actor of Women's Roles

A Famous Actor of Women's Roles

Kitao Shigemasa, 1754

Descending Geese in the Archery Gallery (Yokyuba no Rakugan)

Descending Geese in the Archery Gallery (Yokyuba no Rakugan)

Kitao Shigemasa, 1770

Priest Saigyo Contemplating Mount Fuji

Priest Saigyo Contemplating Mount Fuji

Kitao Shigemasa, 1770

The Ninth Ichimura Uzaemon in the Title Role of the Drama Nagoya Sanza

The Ninth Ichimura Uzaemon in the Title Role of the Drama Nagoya Sanza

Kitao Shigemasa, 1757

Plum Tree in Blossom

Plum Tree in Blossom

Kitao Shigemasa, 1739

Boy as Hotei, from an untitled series of children as the Seven Gods of Good Fortune

Boy as Hotei, from an untitled series of children as the Seven Gods of Good Fortune

Kitao Shigemasa, 1780

The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Nagoya Sanzaburo in the play "Higashiyama-dono Kabuki no Tsuitachi," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1766

The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Nagoya Sanzaburo in the play "Higashiyama-dono Kabuki no Tsuitachi," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1766

Kitao Shigemasa, 1766

Portraits of Twenty-eight Metal Artists

Portraits of Twenty-eight Metal Artists

Kitao Shigemasa, 1739

Courtesans of Yotsumaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2

Courtesans of Yotsumaya, from the book "Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro bijin awase sugata kagami)," vol. 2

Kitao Shigemasa, 1776

Doll Playing a Hand Drum

Doll Playing a Hand Drum

Kitao Shigemasa, 1770

Flower Arranging

Flower Arranging

Kitao Shigemasa, 1764

Plum Tree in Blossom

Plum Tree in Blossom

Kitao Shigemasa, 1813