The Japanese term Kacho-ga, or Kacho-e is referenced in Japanese prints ukiyo-e images of birds and flowers.

Birds and flowers had always been the usual theme in Japanese prints, as well as in their paintings, but on rare occasions it was considered that these Japanese prints were considered as art, at least in Japan.

The habitual consumers of the Japanese engravings had a greater preference for all Japanese engravings that would represent well-known or famous landscapes and actors of the theater kabuki, that represented their world nearer and ephemeral to their short lives, from there the word ukiyo-e "floating world the ephemeral. "

However, kacho-e has always been much appreciated by western collectors of Japanese books and prints, making editions to be sold outside Japan as Imao Keinen and his four books Keinen Kachō Gafu "The Four Seasons" of 1892, where Relates plants, flowers and birds with each season.

Kacho-ga, or Kacho-e, was not limited to birds and flowers, we can also find sheep, hens, insects and many more animals.