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白梅に尾長鳥
Long-tailed Blue Magpie on Flowering Plum Branch
白梅に尾長鳥
Japanese
Edo period
early 1830s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Ôtanzaku; 38.3 x 17.2 cm (15 1/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21122
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Mann, 60 Years (2021), #121; Ôta Mem. Mus., Hiroshige kachôga ten (1997), #4; RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #80; Bogel et al, Hiroshige Birds & Flowers (1988), #16; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, ôtanzaku #6.7; Ukiyo-e taikei 11 (1974), #10
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.21122, 21.7918, 21.7919
Poem translated by Alfred H. Marks in Bogel, Goldman, and Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers (1988); and in Mann, Sixty Years with Japanese Prints (2021), p. 315.
Poem translated by Alfred H. Marks in Bogel, Goldman, and Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers (1988); and in Mann, Sixty Years with Japanese Prints (2021), p. 315.
Signed
Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
広重筆
InscriptionsLine from Chinese poem by Yang Weizhen (1296-1370): Ichiju dokusen tenka (no) haru
一樹独先天下春
一樹独先天下春
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.