Image
Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿
Yellow-billed grosbeak, male white-backed woodpecker (Mamemawashi kitsutsuki), Edo (Japanese period)
Description
Title
Yellow-billed grosbeak, male white-backed woodpecker (Mamemawashi kitsutsuki)
Year
Edo (Japanese period)
Medium
color, ink
Materials/Techniques
Dimensions
Plate: 22.7 x 37 cm (8 15/16 x 14 9/16 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
Inscription UL.
[text and poems]
Kyoka (light verse) poems by Akera Kanko and Shino no Tamawaku
Signature: Kitagawa Utamaro | within album
Seals: Artist's seal ~ within album | Utamaro
Place
Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo
Type
Credit
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Object Number
38.002
About
Yellow-billed grosbeak, male white-backed woodpecker (Mamemawashi kitsutsuki)
A myriad of birds compared with kyoka poems (Momo chidori kyoka awase)
Inscription UL.
[text and poems]
Kyoka (light verse) poems by Akera Kanko and Shino no Tamawaku
Signature: Kitagawa Utamaro | within album
Seals: Artist's seal ~ within album | Utamaro
Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo
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