Okamoto Shūki Notecard Set

$19.95 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Okamoto Shūki Notecard Set  20 Notecards, 21 envelopes 10 images, 2 of each image In Japanese art, it is important to express the inner essence of flowers as it is to convey their external beauty. The flowers reproduced in this notecard set are from a collection of paintings on silk from Pictures of Flowers and Birds, a nineteenth-century album by Okamoto Shūki.  LACMA's permanent collection includes this album and other works by Okamoto Shūki.