Shasei ihen: Tori no rui (Posthumous sketches: Birds)

This work is an illustrated bird compendium attributed to MAKINO Sadamoto (1787–1828), the lord of the Kasama Domain during the Edo period. Bird catalogs created by daimyo (feudal lords), including those by Makino, are featured in detail in the 37th edition of the National Diet Library's digital exhibition the Kaleidoscope of Books, No. 37: A History of Birds and Daily Life (Japanese only). Further examples of rare bird illustrations from the Edo period can be found in the online exhibition, Fauna and Flora in illustrations: Natural history of the Edo period (Japanese only).