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Crossbill and Thistle
Crossbill and Thistle, from the set of 'Small Flowers', one of Hokusai's famed images of flowers and birds.There was a long tradition in Japan of masters excelling in this type of design due to the deep-seated love of living things in the Japanese culture and the veneration in which certain flowers were held through Buddhist and other associations.