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Utagawa Hiroshige

Small Bird and Chrysanthemums (Kiku ni kotori), 1830's

Description

Maker

Title

Small Bird and Chrysanthemums (Kiku ni kotori)

Year

1830's

Medium

Polychrome wood block print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Supports

Dimensions

Image: 37 x 12.2 cm (14 9/16 x 4 13/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Red square stamp verso, bottom right corner.

Poem:
Kichô omou

Thoughts on an Exotic Bird

Taihô no/takaki kokoro no/kimi yue ni/ukimi o sasai/yori mo tsukarezu

He is a great lord,/with a mind that flies as high/as that of the roc,/so he will have none of me,/who dare not fly very high.

Identification

Edition

Version with wood grain in blue shading lower left

Place

Japan; Edo (location)

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.217.2

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Of Clover and Chrysanthemum

September 1 - December 12, 2010

A small yellow bird perches on the red and white chrysanthemums, and next to it inscribed a kyôka poem (light verse) which reads:

“Thoughts on an Exotic Bird
He is a great lord,
with a mind that flies as high
as that of the roc.
So he will have none of me,
who dare not fly very high.”

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