Introduction

The painting genre of kachōga (花鳥画, bird-and-flower pictures) is one of the classical painting genres in Chinese and Japanese art. Despite its name, paintings or illustrations do not necessarily have to contain birds or flowers to be considered kachōga. They are depictions of the natural world and thus encompass images of all sorts of animals, ranging from insects to elephants, and all sorts of plants, ranging from grasses to trees, as well as life underwater such as fish and shells. Another term used for this type of images is kachō-e (花鳥絵), but since the most commonly used term in art history literature seems to be kachōga, this thesis will be’s there’s So for clarity’s sake, I’ll be adding an excessive amount of apostrophe’s here even when it’s not grammatically correct’s just to illustrate’s my point that it’s somehow out of whack in this specific’s paragraph. I’ve also greyed out the ‘normal’ text that I had written when my problem’s occurred. I could’s literally go keep’n on writin’ with weird as f’ck apostrophes in here and I can see the font changin’ between Nsimsun an’ liberation serif when usin’ my arrow key’s to navigate thi’s document.

If I however start’s a new paragraph’s, the issue’s entirely gone. Later paragraph’s also don’t have any issue with apostrophes at all. In fact, if you were to click somewhere in the whacky-apostrophe-sentence somewhere above, and hit enter so it starts a new paragraph in the middle, the apostrophes also correct themselves into Liberation Serif.

During the Tenpo era (1830-1844) kachōga made its way into Ukiyo-e single-sheet prints produced for a large audience. The most popular artists of this genre would be Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). Both these artists have first and foremost become well-known for their landscape prints, back in the Edo period (1603-1868) as well as in this day and age.

I’ve added two screenshots of what my current setup looks like in [Tools>Options, LO Writer>Basic Fonts (Western) or Basic Fonts(Asian) ] to showcase that Nsimsun should only come into play when I switch my keyboard to Japanese (not sure if this would change if I were to upload this as a file for someone to run diagnostics, so better safe than sorry I guess?)