Cuckoo over the Sumida River (Sumidagawa no hototogisu), from the series Ten Views of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho jukkei)

「江戸名所十景　隅田川の時鳥」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)

Japanese

Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri with usuzumi); ink on paper

Dimensions 16.7 x 22.7 cm (6 9/16 x 8 15/16 in.)

Credit Line Asiatic Curator's Fund

Accession NumberRES.49.156

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The series(?): Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #628

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Provenance1949, purchased by the MFA from an unidentified source. (Accession Date: September 15, 1949)