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Cuckoo Flying through Rain


雨中のほととぎす
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Shôeidô, Eisendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832 (Tenpô 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Chûtanzaku; 37.5 x 12.8 cm (14 3/4 x 5 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.7949
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mann, Sixty Years (2021), #123; Forrer, Hiroshige (1997), #107; RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #95; Bogel et al, Hiroshige Birds & Flowers (1988), #66
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.992, 21.7948, 21.7949

Poem translated by Alfred H. Marks in Bogel, Goldman, and Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers (1988); in Forrer, Hiroshige (1997); and in Mann, Sixty Years with Japanese Prints (2021), p. 317.
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoem: Futakoe wa/ Ihosaki koezu/ hototogisu
二声は 五百崎こへつ ほとゝぎす
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.