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Utagawa Kunisato

"Black" bamboo, 1858

Description

Maker

  • Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797-1858, Japanese, previous attribution
  • Utagawa Kunisato, d. 1858, Japanese

Title

"Black" bamboo

Year

1858

Medium

wood block print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • ink

Techniques

  • wood block,
  • woodcut

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

24.1 x 17 cm (9 1/2 x 6 11/16 inches) (plate) chuban; Mat size: B; Asian Art Department Carpenter In

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso, bottom left: MOC-12-[7]4-/[Illegible Japanese Characters]; in a later hand: NC [text and poems]Poem: Kuretake ya (translates to) The kuretake bambooame kikishimete (translates to)listens to rain, kuina naku (translates to) the water rail chirpsThe song of the water rail (kuina) is a season word (kigo) for early summer (May-June in Japan). Its song is likened to the pecking of its beak on wood. The rainy season may have begun.

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.359

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Lure of Ink

March 6 - July 5, 2009

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is "Black" bamboo with the accession number of 34.359. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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