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Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

Great tit, Japanese robin (Shijukara komadori)

Description

Maker

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

Title

Great tit, Japanese robin (Shijukara komadori)
A myriad of birds compared with kyoka poems (Momo chidori kyoka awase)

Period

Edo Period

Year

ca. 1790

Medium

  • polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Polychrome woodblock print

Materials

color, ink

Supports

  • paper

Geography

Place Made: Japan

Dimensions

Plate: 22.7 x 37.3 cm (8 15/16 x 14 11/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription along left edge.
[text and poems]
Kyoka (light verse) poems by Takara no Atsumaru and Fumoto no Chikamichi

Signature: Kitagawa Utamaro | within album

Seals: Artist's seal ~ within album | Utamaro

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

38.009

Type

  • Prints

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Tombstone

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (Japanese, 1754-1806)
Tsutaya Jūzaburō 蔦屋重三郎 (Japanese, 1750 - 1797), publisher
Great tit, Japanese robin (Shijukara komadori); A myriad of birds compared with kyoka poems (Momo chidori kyoka awase), ca. 1790
Polychrome woodblock print
Plate: 22.7 x 37.3 cm (8 15/16 x 14 11/16 inches)
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 38.009

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