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[15] View of Flowers and Birds

This painting was known as a Sugido-e (painting on cedar-board doors) painted by Okamoto Shuuki that decorated the main entrance of the Ninomaru palace. There are 4 motifs, a peafowl with a rock, a bird with mulberry wood, a carp with a pine tree and wisteria flowers, and plum blossoms. High techniques, for example, representing the wooden grain as a water surface shown in the motif of a carp with a pine tree and wisteria flowers are used in this painting.