Hiroshige Birds and Flowers Vintage Illustration Pack, 16 Printable Plates

A themed pack of 16 printable vintage plates from Utagawa Hiroshige's celebrated kachō-e (bird-and-flower) woodblock prints of the 1830s and 1840s: kingfishers, swallows, mandarin ducks, a peacock, cranes, warblers and bats among plum, cherry, camellia and peony, 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: Kingfisher and Hydrangea, Swallows and Peach Blossoms under the Moon, Small Bird on Crabapple, Long-tailed Bird and Plum Blossoms, Bush Warbler and Plum, Bush Warbler and Camellia, Mandarin Ducks, Sparrows and Camellia in Snow, Tethered Monkey and Cherry Blossoms, Peacock and Peonies, Pheasant and Chrysanthemums, Hawk on a Pine Tree, Crane and Rising Sun, Ducks among Reeds, Bird and Camellia, Bats and Moon. The prints carry Hiroshige's signature, publishers' seals and short poems. Japanese titles: Ajisai ni kawasemi (Kingfisher and Hydrangea); Gekka momo ni tsubakura (Swallows and Peach Blossoms under the Moon); Kaidō ni shōkin (Small Bird on Crabapple); Ume ni onagadori (Long-tailed Bird and Plum Blossoms); Ume ni uguisu (Bush Warbler and Plum); Tsubaki ni uguisu (Bush Warbler and Camellia); Oshidori (Mandarin Ducks); Secchū tsubaki ni suzume (Sparrows and Camellia in Snow); Sakura ni tsunagizaru (Tethered Monkey and Cherry Blossoms).

Print size: Full-size original museum and library scans, never resized: about 5,000–9,100 px on the long edge. Every plate prints sharp up to about 8 × 23 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 because these are original single-sheet woodblock prints in tall, narrow hanging-scroll and poem-card formats.

Files: 16 high-resolution JPGs, about 5,000–9,100 px on the long edge (100 MB total), delivered as one zip download.

Source: Colour woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), from the full-resolution scans of the Library of Congress (Prints & Photographs, Japanese prints; no known restrictions) and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (CC0), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain: Hiroshige died in 1858 and the prints were published in the 1830s–1840s.

Digital file only. No physical item will be shipped.