Image

RISDM 34-311.tif

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川 国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Cuckoo and Moon (Tsuki ni hototogisu), Edo (Japanese period)

Description

Maker

Title

Cuckoo and Moon (Tsuki ni hototogisu)

Year

Edo (Japanese period)

Medium

ink, color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 23.3 x 29.7 cm (9 3/16 x 11 11/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso, bottom left in pencil: MOC 1125/[Japanese Characters?]; in a later hand inscribed in pencil verso, bottom center: NT/a

[notations]
Hototogisu/naku ya Musashi to/Shimousa no/Ryogoku kake te/tatta hito koe

From above Ryogoku, across the provinces of Musashi and Shimosa, the cry of the nightingale

The bird is flying over the Sumida River. A harbinger of summer, its powerful cry comes first in the night and extends over two provinces, here Musashi and Shimosa. Another related poem appears on 34.589/K 217.

Signature: Kochoro Kunisada ga

Seals: Censor's seal | kiwame; date seal | 1829

Place

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.311

About

Cuckoo and Moon (Tsuki ni hototogisu)

Inscription verso, bottom left in pencil: MOC 1125/[Japanese Characters?]; in a later hand inscribed in pencil verso, bottom center: NT/a

[notations]
Hototogisu/naku ya Musashi to/Shimousa no/Ryogoku kake te/tatta hito koe

From above Ryogoku, across the provinces of Musashi and Shimosa, the cry of the nightingale

The bird is flying over the Sumida River. A harbinger of summer, its powerful cry comes first in the night and extends over two provinces, here Musashi and Shimosa. Another related poem appears on 34.589/K 217.

Signature: Kochoro Kunisada ga

Seals: Censor's seal | kiwame; date seal | 1829

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Use

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