Lilac, Syringa vulgaris.

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Lilac, Syringa vulgaris. Handcoloured woodblock print from Konan Tanigami's "Seiyou Sokazufu" (Pictorial Album of Western Plants and Flowers: Spring), Unsodo, Kyoto, 1917. Tanigami (1879-1928) depicted 125 varieties of garden plants through the four seasons.

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Size: 5721px × 3918px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1879-1928, 1917, album, artist, botanical, engraving, flowers, garden, gardening, handcoloured, illustration, japanese, kakicho, konan, kyoto, lilac, pictorial, plants, print, seasons, seiyou, shokei, sokazufu, spring, syringa, tanigami, ukiyo-, unsodo, vulgaris, western, woodblock