Bairei Birds and Flowers Vintage Illustration Pack, 16 Printable Plates

A themed pack of 16 printable vintage plates from Kōno Bairei's Bairei Kachō Gafu (Bairei's Album of Birds and Flowers, Kyoto, 1883), a Japanese woodblock-printed book of birds among seasonal flowers, made for junk journals, scrapbooking, card making, collage, decoupage and paper crafts. Print them at home, cut them out and layer them into your projects. The files are full-size original scans, so they are also big enough to frame as wall art.

Plates included: Kerria and Cormorants, Camellia and Mallards, Fragrant Olive and Horned Owl, Cotton Plant and Cranes, Wintersweet and Cockatoo, Irises and Egrets, Hydrangea and Rooster, Hibiscus and Golden Pheasants, Peonies and Stork, Crabapple and Peacock, Lotus and Geese, Balloon Flowers and Chickens, Peonies and Silver Pheasants, Daylilies and Mynas, Weeping Cherry and Woodpecker, Morning Glories and Cranes. The original album pages are unnumbered; names follow the Japanese captions.

Print size: Full-size original museum and library scans, never resized: about 4,800–4,900 px on the long edge. Every plate prints sharp up to about 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi (based on the smallest plate; most go larger), and down to A4, US Letter or A5 with no loss. The shapes vary slightly because they're original book pages.

Files: 16 high-resolution JPGs, about 4,800–4,900 px on the long edge (44 MB total), delivered as one zip download.

Source: Colour woodblock prints after Kōno Bairei, from the National Diet Library of Japan Digital Collections scans of Bairei Kachō Gafu (1883), via Wikimedia Commons. Each page keeps its original decorative border and red title label. Public domain: Bairei died in 1895 and the book was published in 1883.

Digital file only. No physical item will be shipped.