Nature

An orchid drawn as carefully as a portrait. Japanese woodblock prints of birds, flowers and landscapes here run from about 1780 to the present, by way of the Meiji period and the mid 20th century. Prints from the Ranka-fu orchid series, dated 1946, show cypripedium, oncidium and brassia orchids with botanical precision. Kitao Shigemasa, active in the late 18th century, represents the earlier Edo masters of birds and flowers.

There are framed triptychs dated 1889 and 1901, an ogi or fan-form print from about 1900, prints published between 1898 and 1908, a group dated 1954, a print signed Bakufu of a lily in a bamboo vase, and a contemporary print on washi from about 2022. Hang a flower print in a breakfast room or a run of landscapes along a hallway. The seasons, in a form that never needs watering.