Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Long-tailed Tit (Enaga) and Japanese White-Eyes (Mejiro), from the album Momo chidori kyôka awase (Myriad Birds: A Kyôka Competition)


百千鳥 「ゑなが 籬菊丸 勉志ろ 田原船積」
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 x 37.8 cm (9 13/16 x 14 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.6602
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #475.5
DescriptionVolume 1, picture 5.
Poems by Magaki no Kikumaru (for the long-tailed tit) and Tawara Funazumi (for the white-eyes).
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.