Jakuchu Flower Calendar 2021 Edition (Calendar)

A floral ceiling painting by Ito Jakuchu, a painter active in the mid-Edo period, is treasured at Shingyoji Temple in Kyoto (not open to the public). Originally painted for the Kannon Hall of Sekihoji Temple, where Jakuchu spent his final years, it had a strange fate and ended up being installed on the ceiling of the current temple. During the Meiji period, a luxurious woodblock print collection, "Jakuchu Gafu," was published, in which 100 images from this ceiling painting were selected and reproduced using multicolor woodblock printing. The "Jakuchu Calendar" features 13 prints from this woodblock print collection, including the cover. The flowers and plants depicted in the unique compositions seen in Jakuchu's paintings have been reproduced using meticulous printing techniques so as not to detract from the flavor of the woodblock prints.