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Wren (Misosazai) and Snipe (Shigi), from the album Momo chidori kyôka awase (Myriad Birds: A Kyôka Competition)


百千鳥 「鷦鷯 唐衣橘洲 鴨 先客万来」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1790 (Kansei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.6 x 38.2 cm (10 1/16 x 15 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.6593
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #475.7
DescriptionVolume 1, picture 7.
Poems by Karakoromo Kisshû (for the wren) and Senkyaku Banrai (for the snipe).
The artist and publisher are identified on the final page of the album, 21.6604a.
The complete, intact album: 2005.119.1-2 and 2008.344.1-2.
Signed (this page unsigned)
ProvenanceJanuary 1917, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.