A Japanese white-eye or called Mejiro in Japanese is one of the familiar wild birds for Japanese people, People who like wild birds have kept them in their own breeding basket called "sashiko, sashikko" in the past, and had enjoyed mejiro's chatting a song.
The times have changed. Under the Protection and Control of Wild Birds and Mammals and Hunting Management Law, people can be them to keep one bird at one family under the terms of renewal of permits every year and in addition accompanied by the provision of banding on the leg.
And now, for something little different, Whenever ume blossoms begin to bloom, mejiro flies around ume blossoms to search for nectar.
When I see these the sight, it always reminds me a flower and bird paintings that consist of 53 cm in length and 45 cm in width clustered in one flower tree bought in a certain country.
Three years ago in Spring, I remembered this picture, so I hung over it on the wall.
Although there are things that seem to”his signature and seal” in the painting, it is not the name of the painter of this painting, it seem to be just a noun to be express "blue cloud".
If I look closely at it, I found out it was a printmaking.
I thought that there was no choice because the first seller's asking price of 200,000 yen（about US$1950) fell to 15,000 yen.
メジロは日本人には親しみやすい野鳥の一つで、かっては野鳥好きの人が“サシコ、サシッコ”と呼ばれる専用飼育カゴで飼育し、その囀りを楽しんだ。
時代が変わり、鳥獣保護法により日本でメジロは一世帯一羽を一年更新で飼育できることになったが、付帯条件として脚にバンディングすることとなった。
梅の花が咲き始めると、メジロは梅の花の周りを飛んで蜜を探す。その光景を見ていると必ず思い出すのが某国で買った1枚の花木に群がる縦53㎝、横45cmの花鳥画。3年前の春、この絵を思い出し壁に掛けた。
絵の中には「彼の署名と印鑑」と思われるものがありますが、それはこの絵画の画家の名前ではなく、単に「青い雲」と表現するだけの名詞のようです。
更によく見てみると版画だということが判明した。考えてみれば、最初の売主の言い値の20万円が1.5万円に下がったのだから仕方がないかと思った。
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