Image

RISDM 34-217-1.tif

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Small Bird and Chrysanthemums (Kiku ni kotori), Edo (Japanese period)

Description

Maker

Title

Small Bird and Chrysanthemums (Kiku ni kotori)

Year

Edo (Japanese period)

Medium

ink, color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 37.5 x 12.9 cm (14 3/4 x 5 1/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

White rectangular label affixed verso, bottom right with inscription in pencil:YA532/[Japanese Characters]

Poem:
Kichô omou

Thoughts on an Exotic Bird

Taihô no/takaki kokoro no/kimi yue ni/ukimi o sasai/yori mo tsukarezu

He is a great lord,/with a mind that flies as high/as that of the roc,/so he will have none of me,/who dare not fly very high.

Signature: Signed at left | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryûsai; publisher's seal | Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Kawashô)

Identification

State

Bogel remarks that the collection has another impression (.2) with wood grain in blue shading in lower left.

Place

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.217.1

About

Small Bird and Chrysanthemums (Kiku ni kotori)

White rectangular label affixed verso, bottom right with inscription in pencil:YA532/[Japanese Characters]

Poem:
Kichô omou

Thoughts on an Exotic Bird

Taihô no/takaki kokoro no/kimi yue ni/ukimi o sasai/yori mo tsukarezu

He is a great lord,/with a mind that flies as high/as that of the roc,/so he will have none of me,/who dare not fly very high.

Signature: Signed at left | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryûsai; publisher's seal | Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Kawashô)

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)
Bogel remarks that the collection has another impression (.2) with wood grain in blue shading in lower left.

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