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Listening to a Cuckoo under a Weeping Willow on the Riverbank

Listening to a Cuckoo under a Weeping Willow on the Riverbank

垂柳河岸に子規を聞く

Kitao Masanobu (Santô Kyôden) (Japanese, 1761–1816)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1782–86

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal double ôban; 38.8 x 55.5 cm (15 1/4 x 21 7/8 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.5709

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e taikei 3 (1976), #286; Michener, Floating World (1954), #55

Signed Masanobu ga
政演画

ProvenanceFebruary 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from J. Clarence Webster Collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.