Jo - pièce de résistanceFound this little charming guy as I was on Pinterest and omg so cute from an old Japanese painting.
(Origins may be questionable)
yelling jackal@JoBlakely oh, oh that's cute 
az@JoBlakely The image you provided is a modern digital illustration created in the style of traditional Chinese court painting.
It draws inspiration from the Gongbi technique, known for its meticulous brushwork and highly detailed realism, a style famously used by Qing Dynasty court painters like Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining).
Costume Elements: The bird is humorously depicted wearing a black official's hat (Wushamao) and a traditional cross-collared robe tied with a red silk ribbon.
It draws inspiration from the Gongbi technique, known for its meticulous brushwork and highly detailed realism, a style famously used by Qing Dynasty court painters like Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining).
Costume Elements: The bird is humorously depicted wearing a black official's hat (Wushamao) and a traditional cross-collared robe tied with a red silk ribbon.
@azmastodon
It looks more like Japanese Kanmuri Shinto hat to me.
https://www.japanese-vintage.org/kanmuri-shinto-hat-1900
Though there are design & style crossovers from China to Japan, there are major noticeable differences too. This does NOT look like a Wushamao at all.
ChatGPT who you are getting your info from is hardly the expert on cultural differences.
https://mastodon.social/@azmastodon/116398003957607933
The images referenced are not comparable except to someone ignorant of the arts & both cultures. I did look at those pieces you referenced.
@JoBlakely Real Historical References
For comparison, actual historical Chinese bird-and-flower paintings often featured exotic birds gifted to emperors:
Emperor Huizong's Five-colored Parakeet on Blossoming Apricot Tree: A famous Song Dynasty masterpiece depicting a real parrot in a non-personified way.
The Manual of Birds (故宮鳥譜): An imperial encyclopedia from the Qing Dynasty that catalogs hundreds of bird species with similar realistic detail.
For comparison, actual historical Chinese bird-and-flower paintings often featured exotic birds gifted to emperors:
Emperor Huizong's Five-colored Parakeet on Blossoming Apricot Tree: A famous Song Dynasty masterpiece depicting a real parrot in a non-personified way.
The Manual of Birds (故宮鳥譜): An imperial encyclopedia from the Qing Dynasty that catalogs hundreds of bird species with similar realistic detail.
@azmastodon chatGPT is not a good source for cultural interpretation or understanding. I think you are wrong.
Alessandro Corazza 🇨🇦(parrot enthusiast chiming in)
For one, I don't think this is an actual species of bird - it looks like the head of a peach-faced lovebird with the body and tail of a pineapple conure.
Second, even if it was one of those birds, conures (technically a kind of parakeet) are native to South America, so that ain't it. Lovebirds are from southern Africa so that's a remote possibility, but unlikely. Much more likely they would have kept Indian ringnecks or similar.
@alessandro @azmastodon
Yeah. Thanks for the expertise regarding the bird. It probably is an AI mashup of some kind unfortunately. A chimera of culture & life. I wish I didn’t like it now.
Yeah. Thanks for the expertise regarding the bird. It probably is an AI mashup of some kind unfortunately. A chimera of culture & life. I wish I didn’t like it now.
AI really does poison everything, doesn't it? I did find this page though, with actual Edo-era prints. Some are a bit wonky but I recognize a rainbow lorikeet and a yellow-crested cockatoo (Australia), a few eclectus parrots (New Guinea). I have no idea about the green one with a crest though - I don't know of any crested parrots with green plumage. Based on the eye I'm thinking ringneck, but they don't have crests.
@alessandro thank you for sharing this!