Bamboo and Sparrow

竹に雀

Japanese

Edo period

late 1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical yotsugiri (quarter ôban); 18.4 x 12.2 cm (7 1/4 x 4 13/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.8639

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #132; Bogel et al, Hiroshige Birds & Flowers (1988), #75

DescriptionPoem translated by Alfred H. Marks in Bogel, Goldman, and Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers (1988).

Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆

InscriptionsChinese poem
日落風清竹樹林　一樽飛閣（へい）秘陰