Flowers of Edo: A Guide to Classical Japanese Flowers

This book features a collection of 100 illustrations carefully selected from the historical botanical art book Honzō-zufu, published in 1828 during the Edo period (1603-1868) by Iwasaki Kanen. As the first Japanese botanical encyclopedia, it wasextensive in its contents, comprising 96 volumes with 2000 plants sketched, coloured and categorized into mountain plants, wet plants and poisonous plants. In this edition, the book is formatted in a landscape format allowing the illustrations to be viewed clearly on the page. Accompanying the sketches are Chinese, Japanese and Kampō (Chinese medicine) names with a description of each flower’s medical efficiency, origin of name, language associations and other useful information.

Kazuhiko Tajima is the art director for Flowers of Edo: A Guide to Classical Japanese Flowers from PIE International and also designed the best-selling title, Bonsai for PIE International.

Size : 25.7 x 1.7 x 18 cm