Birds: Street Musicians (Torioi), from the series Flowers and Birds, Wind and Moon (Kachô fûgetsu) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Birds: Street Musicians (Torioi), from the series Flowers and Birds, Wind and Moon (Kachô fûgetsu)

Birds: Street Musicians (Torioi), from the series Flowers and Birds, Wind and Moon (Kachô fûgetsu)

「花鳥風月」　鳥追

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1824 (Bunsei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Shikishiban; 20.9 x 18.4 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.)

Credit Line General Funds

Accession Number00.1962

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Carpenter et al, Reading Surimono (2008), p. 67, fig. 6 (British Mus. impression)

Description鳥追を描いた春興摺物。

Signed Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画

InscriptionsPoem by Ryûfûtei Shirube no Hanagaki: Morotomo ni/ mutsumashi tsuki no/ sukiwahi wa/ momosaezuri no/ haru no torioi
「柳風亭★導美垣　諸共にむつまし月のすきわひはもゝ囀りの春の鳥追」

ProvenanceJanuary 1900, purchased at the Brinkley-Condor Sale by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 9, 1900)