花鳥

かちょう

flowers and birds

鳥媒花

ちょうばいか

ornithophilous flower (i.e. pollinated by birds)

花鳥図

かちょうず

painting of flowers and birds; bird-and-flower genre in Chinese and Japanese painting

鳥獣戯画

ちょうじゅうぎが

Scrolls of Frolicking Animals (set of 12th and 13th century picture scrolls)

花鳥風月

かちょうふうげつ

beauties of nature, the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics

極楽鳥花

ごくらくちょうか ごくらくちょうはな

bird of paradise flower, Strelitzia reginae

花鳥諷詠

かちょうふうえい

the beauties of nature as the key poetic theme, the central theme in composing poetry (haiku) must be the beauties of nature and the harmony that exist between nature and man. (The slogan of the Hototogisu School of modern Japanese haiku)

落花啼鳥

らっかていちょう

the poetic feeling of a late spring scene (with flowers scattering and birds chirping)

鳥

とり

bird

青砥稿花紅彩画

あおとぞうしはなのにしきえ

Aoto Zōshi Hana no Nishiki-e (kabuki play by Kawatake Mokuami)

死花花

しかばな

paper flower for a funeral

画

かく が え

picture, drawing, painting, sketch

花

はな

flower, blossom, bloom, petal

瑞鳥

ずいちょう

auspicious bird (i.e. crane)

夏鳥

なつどり なつとり

a bird of summer

文鳥

ぶんちょう

Java sparrow, Java rice finch (Lonchura oryzivora, Padda oryzivora)

漂鳥

ひょうちょう

wandering bird

飛鳥

ひちょう あすか

flying bird

犀鳥

さいちょう

hornbill (any bird of family Bucerotidae)