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Birds Beginning Flight (Kûgen e tobu)


「空原へとぶ」
Shima Tamami (Japanese, born in 1937)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1959 (Shôwa 34)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Height x width: 61 × 84.8 cm (24 × 33 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Asiatic Curator's Fund
Accession Number60.916
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Tamami Shima (in romanization, in pencil in lower margin)
Provenance1960, sold by John B. Sears to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 1960)