EditorialKoshika or hagi, Japanese clover, Lespedeza bicolor var. japonica. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialThe Courtesan Wakana of the Wakana House and the Lespedeza Crystal River, from the series Six Fashionable Crystal Rivers. Date: c. 1830. Dimensions: 38 cm x 26 cm.
EditorialThunberg's bushclover or hagi, Lespedeza thunbergii var. thunbergii (Desmodium penduliflorum). Japan. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de...
EditorialKoshika or hagi, Japanese clover, Lespedeza bicolor var. japonica. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.