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Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

Cockerel, hen and Japanese meadow buntin (Niwatori to hojiro)

Maker

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (1754-1806, worked in Edo, Japan)
Tsutaya Jūzaburō 蔦屋重三郎 (1750 - 1797), publisher

Title

Cockerel, hen and Japanese meadow buntin (Niwatori to hojiro)
A myriad of birds compared with kyoka poems (Momo chidori kyoka awase )

Period

Edo Period

Year

ca. 1790

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

color, ink

Supports

Geography

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Dimensions

Plate: 23.7 x 37.3 cm (9 5/16 x 14 11/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription at right.
[text and poems]
Kyoka (light verse) poems by Yadoya no Meshimori and Ashibeta Tazumaru

Signature: Kitagawa Utamaro

Seals: Artist's seal | within the album ~ Utamaro

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

38.007

Type

Exhibition History

Japanese Prints
Nature in Microcosm
Mar 10, 1998 – Jun 09, 1998

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (1754-1806, worked in Edo, Japan)
Tsutaya Jūzaburō 蔦屋重三郎 (1750 - 1797), publisher
Cockerel, hen and Japanese meadow buntin (Niwatori to hojiro); A myriad of birds compared with kyoka poems (Momo chidori kyoka awase ), ca. 1790
Polychrome wood block print
Plate: 23.7 x 37.3 cm (9 5/16 x 14 11/16 inches)
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 38.007

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