BENRIDO Decorative Picture Scroll, "Anthology with Cranes"

The Benrido Atelier is a COLLOTYPE workshop based in Kyoto, Japan and has mastered the art style since 1887. Their beautiful designs make for amazing Japanese gifts, decorations and souvenirs. The printing requires the best materials, with quality ink and handmade Japanese washi paper, and experienced craftsmen are the only ones able to properly design the prints - Each individual step requires experience and eye for detail to create beautiful tones and to properly balance the pigment.  

A miracle collaboration work "Important Cultural Property Tsuruzu Shimoe Wakamaki" (Kyoto National Museum collection) by Tawaraya Sotatsu, the founder of the Rinpa school, and Hon'ami Koetsu, who is called "Kanei's Sanpitsu". In the original, which is 13 meters long, Sotatsu takes off and dances in a group of cranes, and on a sketch depicting the long flight until he returns to the shore and rests his wings, thirty known as an excellent Japanese classic. The Japanese poem of Rokukasen is written in a dynamic book that emphasizes the depth and detail of Koetsu.