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Small Horned Owl in a Pine Tree


松上の木莵
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
mid 1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Chûtanzaku; 36.7 x 12 cm (14 7/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.7943
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #5; Ôta Mem. Mus., Hiroshige kachôga ten (1997), #29; RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #103; Bogel et al, Hiroshige Birds & Flowers (1988), #2; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 240, chûtanzaku #23.29
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.7943, 21.7944

Poem translated by Alfred H. Marks in Bogel, Goldman, and Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers (1988); and in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997).
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
InscriptionsPoem: Mikazuki no/ funa yusan shite/ mimitsuku no/ mimi ni iretaki/ matsukaze no koto
三日月の 船遊山して みゝつくの 耳に入たき 松風の琴  八陣亭
ProvenanceAugust 1919, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frederick W. Gookin; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.