Four Bird-and-Flower Prints: Japanese White-eye and Weeping Cherry (upper right), Kingfisher and Bellflower (upper left), Sparrow and Begonia (lower right), Yellow Bird and Hibiscus (lower left)

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Four Bird-and-Flower Prints: Japanese White-eye and Weeping Cherry (upper right), Kingfisher and Bellflower (upper left), Sparrow and Begonia (lower right), Yellow Bird and Hibiscus (lower left)

四切花鳥画　垂桜に目白（右上）、桔梗に翡翠（左上）、秋海棠に雀（右下）、芙蓉に黄鳥（左下）

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

early 1830s

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

Dimensions Four vertical yotsugiri on uncut vertical ôban sheet; 37.9 x 26 cm (14 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line Asiatic Curator's Fund

Accession Number53.436

OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Menegazzo, Hiroshige: Visioni dal Giappone (2018), #III.11

DescriptionThe first two poems (translation by S. Thompson):
The kingfisher/ dresses in its gorgeous wings,/ mirrored in water. (TL)
The begonia-- / what is it that its leaves are/ vainly yearning for? (BR)

Signed Hiroshige hitsu (upper R and L, lower L), Hiroshige ga (lower R)
広重筆、広重画

Marks Artist's seals: Yûsai (upper right), Ichiryûsai (lower left)

InscriptionsPoems: Kawasemi no/ hane o yosoute/ mizu kagami (TL); Shûkaidô/ sono ha wa nani o/ kata-omoi (BR); ... / hanano no naka no/ wasuremizu (BL)
川蝉の　羽を粧ふて　水かゝみ

Provenance1953, sold by Warren E. Cox and Associates, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 14, 1953)