Image
Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿
Cockerel, hen and Japanese meadow buntin (Niwatori to hojiro), Edo Period
Description
Title
Cockerel, hen and Japanese meadow buntin (Niwatori to hojiro)
Year
Edo Period
Medium
color, ink
Materials/Techniques
Dimensions
Plate: 23.7 x 37.3 cm (9 5/16 x 14 11/16 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
Inscription at right.
[text and poems]
Kyoka (light verse) poems by Yadoya no Meshimori and Ashibeta Tazumaru
Signature: Kitagawa Utamaro
Seals: Artist's seal | within the album ~ Utamaro
Place
Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo
Type
Credit
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Object Number
38.007
About
Cockerel, hen and Japanese meadow buntin (Niwatori to hojiro)
A myriad of birds compared with kyoka poems (Momo chidori kyoka awase )
Inscription at right.
[text and poems]
Kyoka (light verse) poems by Yadoya no Meshimori and Ashibeta Tazumaru
Signature: Kitagawa Utamaro
Seals: Artist's seal | within the album ~ Utamaro
Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo
Exhibition History
Exhibition History
Use
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