Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿
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
Goshawk, thick-billed shrike (Taka mozu)
A myriad of birds compared with kyoka poems (Momo chidori kyoka awase)
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Techniques
Materials
ink, colorSupports
Geography
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Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo
Dimensions
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Plate: 23.3 x 37.3 cm (9 3/16 x 14 11/16 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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Inscription above
[text and poems]
Kyoka (light verse) poems by Akamatsu Kinkei [compiler of the anthology] and Hyakkisai
Signature: Kitagawa Utamaro | within album
Seals: Artist's seal ~ within album | Utamaro Credit / Object Number
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Credit
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Object Number
38.008 Type
Publications
Exhibition History
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Tombstone
Tsutaya Jūzaburō 蔦屋重三郎 (1750 - 1797), publisher
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