No. 62 of 108 · A Hundred Worlds
Bird and Osmanthus
Pictures by Hu Zhengyan
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A small bird rests on a branch of sweet osmanthus, its golden blossoms printed in colour by Hu Zhengyan's Ten Bamboo Studio in Nanjing in 1633. Osmanthus flowers in autumn, the old exam season in China, so plucking a sprig of it meant passing with honours. For someone who has just passed, or is about to.
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From the Ten Bamboo Studio, a book printed in colour in 1633 / Bird and Osmanthus / Birds · Nanjing, 1633 / Sweet osmanthus blooms in autumn, the old exam season in China, so to pluck osmanthus meant to pass with honours.
