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Long-tailed Bird on Flowering Plum Branch


白梅に尾長鳥
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
early 1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Ôtanzaku; 37.8 x 17.7 cm (14 7/8 x 6 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.7918
NOT ON VIEW
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.
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
InscriptionsLine from Chinese poem: Ichiju dokusen tenka (no) haru
一樹独先天下春
ProvenanceDecember 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Yamanaka & Co.; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.