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Cuckoo and Bonito


時鳥と鰹
Kitagawa Utamaro II (Japanese, ?–1831?)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri with usuzumi); ink on paper
Dimensions 22.5 x 17.1 cm (8 7/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24
Accession Number54.272
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
No publisher's mark
改印:なし
版元:なし
InscriptionsPoem: Hitokoe ni/ futatsu no kuni ya/ hototogisu
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)