HOKUSAI Sparrow iPhone case

MATSUBA color


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Matsuba (pine needle) color

HOKUSAI sparrow iPhone case -MATSUBA color-

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Hibiscus mutabilis & sparrow

This sparrow picture is a part of HOKUSAI’s famous work “Hibiscus mutabilis & sparrow (芙蓉に雀)”. “Hibiscus mutabilis & sparrow" is also one of famous HOKUSAI's paint series "Flowers & Birds (花鳥画)".
 
HOKUSAI Hibiscus mutabilis & sparrow

HOKUSAI
Hibiscus mutabilis & sparrow


 
Hibiscus mutabilis is very popular garden flower in Japan. It is very easy to see this flower when people is walking street because hibiscus mutabilis is in bloom a long period from midsummer to end of autumn.
 
Hibiscus mutabilis

Hibiscus mutabilis


 
Sparrow is also a most popular wild bird in Japan. It lives in everywhere mid-city, residential area and country side. So hibiscus mutabilis and sparrow is a part of daily life for Japanese even now.
 
HOKUSAI remind people of beauty in daily life by drawing hibiscus mutabilis with vivid color and flying sparrow.
Sparrow

Sparrow

 

Japanese traditional color
MATSUBA

MATSUBA means pine needle. So MATSUB color is the color of pine needle.
It is a little yellowish green color.
 
Pine needle

Pine needle


 
Pine is thought as symbol of eternal love and long life in Japan because pine needle never change its color and fall all year round. Ancient peoples loved this color for good fortune and frequently used it for clothes. Now it is counted as one of Japanese traditional colors.

HOKUSAI sparrow iPhone case -MATSUBA color-

model price
iPhone 6 $44.95 Buy from Zazzle
iPhone 6plus $50.95 Buy from Zazzle
iPhone 5/5S $44.95 Buy from Zazzle
iPhone 5c $44.95 Buy from Zazzle

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