Details

Subject(s)

• Birds—Japan—In art [Browse]
• Camellias—Japan—In art [Browse]
• Flowers—Japan—In art [Browse]
• Titmice—Japan—In art [Browse]
• Japanese poetry—Illustrations [Browse]
• Japanese literature—Illustrations [Browse]

Notes

• Medium: Nishiki-e (color woodblock print)
• Date of original print: Early 1830s.
• Depiction: Bird hanging upside-down on tree branch.
• Format: Ôtanzaku tate-e.
• Inscribed [poem]: Tsubaki kare ochiru shite kara haki josô (Withered camellias--all the sweeping that goes on after they've fallen). -- Translated by Alfred H. Marks.
• Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City.
• Sealed: Ichiryûsai.
• Signed: Hiroshige hitsu.

Source acquisition

Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of Dale Roylance. Given 2008.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

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