Golden Pheasant on Plum Branch

梅に錦鶏

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)

Japanese

Edo period

Medium/Technique Ink on paper

Dimensions 23.8 x 11.5 cm (9 3/8 x 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Asiatic Curator's Fund

Accession Number53.2006

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Menegazzo, Hiroshige: Visioni dal Giappone (2018), #III.24

Signed Hiroshige ga
広重画

InscriptionsLine from Chinese poem: Baika setchû ni hiraku, "Plum flowers blossom in the snow"

Provenance1953, sold by Mabel Bacon Happer, San Francisco, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 10, 1953)