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Kitagawa Utamaro

Cockerel, hen and Japanese meadow buntin (Niwatori to hojiro), ca. 1790

Description

Maker

  • Kitagawa Utamaro, 1754-1806, Japanese
  • Tsutaya Jūzaburō, 1750 - 1797, Japanese, publisher

Title

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

Year

ca. 1790

Medium

Polychrome wood block print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • color,
  • ink

Techniques

  • wood block,
  • woodcut

Supports

  • paper

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

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

38.007

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Japanese Prints

March 10 - June 9, 1998

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 Cockerel, hen and Japanese meadow buntin (Niwatori to hojiro) with the accession number of 38.007. 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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