Image

Utagawa Kunisato

"Black" bamboo, Edo (Japanese period)

Description

Maker

Title

"Black" bamboo

Year

Edo (Japanese period)

Medium

ink

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Supports

Dimensions

24.1 x 17 cm (9 1/2 x 6 11/16 inches) (plate) chuban; Mat size: B; Asian Art Department Carpenter Inventory and Cataloging Project 2004-20

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.

Signature: Rissensai

Place

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.359

About

"Black" bamboo

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.

Signature: Rissensai

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Use

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