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)
az@JoBlakely Real Historical References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!