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Swallows (Tsubame) and Green Pheasant (Kiji), from the album Momo chidori kyôka awase (Myriad Birds: A Kyôka Competition)


百千鳥 「燕 酒月米人 雉子 桐一葉」
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 38.1 cm (10 1/16 x 15 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.6594
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #475.3
DescriptionVolume 1, picture 3.
Poems by Sakezuki no Komendo (for the swallows) and Kiri Hitoha (for the pheasant).
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.