Image

RISDM 38-012.tif

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

Sparrows, rock doves (Murasuzume hato)

Description

Maker

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (Japanese, 1754-1806)
Tsutaya Jūzaburō 蔦屋重三郎 (Japanese, 1750 - 1797), publisher

Title

Sparrows, rock doves (Murasuzume hato)
A myriad of birds compared with kyoka poems (Momo chidori kyoka awase)

Period

Edo (Japanese period)

Year

ca. 1790

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

ink, color

Supports

Geography

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Dimensions

Plate: 23.3 x 37.3 cm (9 3/16 x 14 11/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription UR.
[text and poems]
Kyoka (light verse) poems by Aya no Orinuchi and Sono no Kocho

Signature: Kitagawa Utamaro | within album

Seals: Artist's seal ~ within album | Utamaro

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

38.012

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Japanese Prints
Nature in Microcosm
Mar 10, 1998 – Jun 09, 1998

Label copy

Utamaro's volume of bird illustrations followed the publication of the first edition of Gifts of the Ebb Tide. Counting his earlier publication of The Insect Book, 1788, he created a total of three separate groups of nature studies in book form.

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Tombstone

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (Japanese, 1754-1806)
Tsutaya Jūzaburō 蔦屋重三郎 (Japanese, 1750 - 1797), publisher
Sparrows, rock doves (Murasuzume hato); A myriad of birds compared with kyoka poems (Momo chidori kyoka awase), ca. 1790
Polychrome woodblock print with embossing
Plate: 23.3 x 37.3 cm (9 3/16 x 14 11/16 inches)
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 38.012

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