HOKUSAI Canary bird iPhone case

TANPOPO color

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HOKUSAI (北斎)
Paeonia lactiflora & canary bird

This canary picture is a part of HOKUSAI’s famous work “Paeonia lactiflora & canary (芍薬とカナリア)”. “Paeonia lactiflora & canary" is also one of famous HOKUSAI's paint series "Flowers & Birds (花鳥画)".
 

 
Paeonia lactiflora bloom on end of spring in Japan. Its color, spring blue sky and lemon yellow of canary makes vivid contrast and people feel now that spring has come with it.
 

 
Canary was first imported to Nagasaki-city Japan in EDO period (1603–1868) by Dutch people. After that, soon it was very common fashion for people to have a cage bird and canary became one of most popular bird of cage bird because of its beautiful voice and color.
 
HOKUSAI painted colors and atmosphere of this feeling by drawing paeonia lactiflora and canary in this work.
 

 

Japanese traditional color
TANPOPO

TANPOPO means taraxacum and TANPOPO color is the color of taraxacum.
Its color is vivid and bright yellow.
 

 
This color became Japanese traditional color in modern history though taraxacum was very popular weeds since ancient period.  
In Japan, there 2 kinds of taraxacum. One is native Japanese species whose height is lower than the other one. The other one is non-native which was brought to Japan in modern history.

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iPhone 6	$44.95	Buy from Zazzle
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iPhone 5/5S	$44.95	Buy from Zazzle
iPhone 5c	$44.95	Buy from Zazzle