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Bird and Chrysanthemums


菊にみそさざい
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Shôeidô, Eisendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
early 1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Chûtanzaku; 37.6 x 13 cm (14 13/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.7968
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ôta Mem. Mus., Hiroshige kachôga ten (1997), #25; RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #101; Bogel et al, Hiroshige Birds & Flowers (1988), #29
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1465, *06.1638 (deaccessioned in 2019), *06.1640 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.7968

Poem translated by Alfred H. Marks in Bogel, Goldman, and Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers (1988).
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks Artist's seal: Ichiryûsai
InscriptionsPoem: Ootori no/ takaki kokoro no/ kimi yue ni/ uki misosasai/ yori mo tsukarezu
寄鳥想 大鵬の たかき心の 君ゆへに うきみてさゝゐ よりもつかれす
ProvenanceSpring 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.