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Kitagawa Utamaro

Goshawk, thick-billed shrike (Taka mozu), ca. 1790

Description

Maker

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

Title

Goshawk, thick-billed shrike (Taka mozu)

Year

ca. 1790

Medium

Polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • ink,
  • color

Techniques

  • wood block,
  • woodcut

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Plate: 23.3 x 37.3 cm (9 3/16 x 14 11/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription above
[text and poems]
Kyoka (light verse) poems by Akamatsu Kinkei [compiler of the anthology] and Hyakkisai

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

38.008

Projects & Publications

Publications

Feathers, Flowers, Talons, and Fangs

Power and Serenity in Japanese Nature Prints
Read Online

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Feathers, Flowers, Talons and Fangs

February 2 - June 10, 2007

Japanese Bird and Flower Prints

February 8 - June 6, 1985

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 Goshawk, thick-billed shrike (Taka mozu) with the accession number of 38.008. 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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