Bairei hyakucho gafu. Ten Pl.25 by Kono Bairei pis-scale This archival fine art print

This archival fine art print on matte paper brings out every clean edge and colour transition Sinoquet builds into his work

Seitei's delicate linework and layered pattern detail emerge with exceptional clarity

the whole composition moving like a slow exhalation

the piece uses colour as both form and emotion

Bairei hyakucho gafu. Ten Pl.25 by Kono Bairei pis-scale This archival fine art printPlate 25 from the Hundred Birds album shows a small bird resting among sparse branch work, the scene composed with the deliberate economy that marks Bairei's finest plates. The branch angles upward from the lower frame a structural line that grounds the composition while the bird's gaze directs attention outward, beyond the picture edge. Ink wash moves from near black at the crown through warm mid tones along the back, the gradation handled with the