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🌻 Konpon ikebana hyakkashiki
Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, after 1868? [Source: biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6089…] (via @biodiversitypix@mastodon.art, profile)

A open book with two pages of black-and-white line drawings on aged, tan paper. On the left page, a slender branch with small serrated leaves and a few flower clusters extends diagonally to the left. Its base rises into a tapered, cylindrical container with a crosshatched woven pattern, set against a vertical tree trunk with bark texture. On the right page, a tall arrangement rises from a wide, shallow, footed bowl. It has long, strap-like leaves with fine parallel lines, one curling upward and another arching out to the right, with a cluster of round buds or seed heads at its base. Vertical Japanese text appears on both pages. On the left, below the branch, the characters read 奥州南部 (Oshū Nanbu) above a name resembling 武藏安兵衛, with smaller text reading 花名養心齋高安 at the bottom. On the right, beside the bowl, the text reads 越中高岡 唯願寺 followed by a character resembling 坊.
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