Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Visual Works (hierarchy name)
5. visual works (works)
6. [visual works by material or technique]
7. paintings (visual works)
8. [paintings by subject type]

Anotations

Scope note:

East Asian paintings primarily depicting birds, and plants, and natural subjects. Paintings of this genre originated in China and were transmitted to Japan by the literati master Shen Nanpin when he visited there in 1731. Japanese artists further developed the genre in the Edo period.