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Birds in a Tree
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About this work
This scene of two Chinese pheasants with a flowering plum tree (a sign of the arrival of spring in Japan) is not painted. All the lines and surfaces are created by colored threads carefully stitched together into the silk. Consequently, the surface appears quite different from paintings on paper.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBirds in a Tree, c. 1700–1868. Japan, Edo period (1615–1868). Hanging scroll; silk gauze brocaded with gold and silk; overall: 169.5 x 47 cm (66 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Donald J. Wineman in memory of his wife, Susan, 1988.246
