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Bird

Totoya Hokkei · c. 1822 · color woodcut; blind-stamped; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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A man plays a mouth organ, while a phoenix flies over. Shôshi, a famous flutist from the Chinese Chin dynasty (255-209 BC), is said to have played so beautifully that phoenixes came flying from the sky to listen to him. With two poems.

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Credit lineVogel. c. 1822. Totoya Hokkei. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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