The Meticulous Vision of Tachibana Morikuni In the vibrant, shifting landscape of Japan’s Edo period, few artists captured the delicate balance between tradition and innovation as exquisitely as Tachibana Morikuni. Known also by his name Tachibana Gadō, this master of the brush emerged from the cultural heart of Ōsaka, leaving behind a legacy defined by an almost supernatural attention to detail. His life, spanning from approximately 1679 to 1748, coincided with a golden age of Japanese visual culture, a time when the boundaries of book illustration and woodblock printing were being pushed t…