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Rooster on a Snowy Hillside


雪中の鶏
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
mid 1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Chûtanzaku; 35.4 x 12.7 cm (13 15/16 x 5 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1458
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #99; Bogel et al, Hiroshige Birds & Flowers (1988), #57; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 240, chûtanzaku #23.14
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1458, 21.7941

Poem translated by Alfred H. Marks in Bogel, Goldman, and Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers (1988).
Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画
Marks Artist's seal: Ichiryûsai
InscriptionsPoem, by Hachijintei: Kinuginu no/ hanashi mo imada/ tsumoranu ni/ tokekau to naku/ yuki no niwatori
きぬきぬの 咄もいまた つもらぬに とけかうと啼く 雪の鶏  八陣亭
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross