Flora and fauna are a conspicuous feature of Far Asiatic art, because they enter as details of the subject-matter of the artist's thoughts and day-dreams.

These birds and flowers are his sujets de genre.

Where we should select a phase of human life for effective isolation, they choose instead a bit of nature.

A spray of grass or a twig of cherry-blossoms is motif enough for them.

To their thought its beauty is amply suggestive.