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Falcon (Taka), from the album Momo chidori kyôka awase (Myriad Birds: A Kyôka Competition)


百千鳥 「鷹 赤松金鶏」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1790 (Kansei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 23 x 18 cm (9 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Dr. G. S. Amsden
Accession Number52.1403
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #475.15
DescriptionVolume 2, picture 7, right half.
Poem by Akamatsu Kinkei.
The artist and publisher are identified on the final page of the album.
MFA impressions: 21.6597 (complete page), 52.1403 (right half only).
The complete, intact album: 2005.119.1-2 and 2008.344.1-2.
Signed (this page unsigned)
Provenance1952, gift of Dr. George S. Amsden (b. 1870 - d. 1966), Acworth, NH, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 9, 1952)