｜Birds in spring.|Japan. Late Edo time. Kôshin/Kanoe-saru = cyclically dated 1860. Ink and pigments on silk. 127 x 51cm.｜In the curve of a mighty pine trunk a bird has built a nest and cares after her four young. Beside the pine grows bamboo, pink cherries and red plums bloom. Sign.: Kanoe-saru keigetsu ... Shûki. Seal: unread. Mounted as hanging scroll. Condition A/B.| |In a sugi wooden box with the inscription: Okamoto Shûki sensei hitsu kachô no zu (Bird-and-flower-painting painted by Master Okamoto Shûki).