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Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

Copper pheasants, wagtail (Yamadori sekirei)

Description

Maker

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

Title

Copper pheasants, wagtail (Yamadori sekirei)
Momo chidori kyoka awase (A myriad of birds compared with kyoka poems)

Period

Edo (Japanese period)

Year

ca. 1790

Medium

  • polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Polychrome woodblock print

Materials

ink, color

Supports

  • paper

Geography

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Dimensions

Image: 22.9 x 37 cm (9 x 14 9/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso, bottom center in pencil: EGR dup[text and poems] Kyoka (light verse) poems byMonaka no Tsukimaro and Mantokusai

Signature: Kitagawa Utamaro

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

Identification

Edition

Edition: Compare this worn impression with 38.010 (Kobayashi pl. 208) Box 58 in the collection.

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

20.1139

Type

  • Prints

Use & Feedback

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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 (Japanese, 1754-1806)
Tsutaya Jūzaburō 蔦屋重三郎 (Japanese, 1750 - 1797), publisher
Copper pheasants, wagtail (Yamadori sekirei); Momo chidori kyoka awase (A myriad of birds compared with kyoka poems), ca. 1790
Polychrome woodblock print
Image: 22.9 x 37 cm (9 x 14 9/16 inches)
Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke 20.1139

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