Birds on Camellia Branch

赤椿に鶯と子鳥

Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)

Japanese

Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri with usuzumi); ink on paper

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 17.2 x 22.8 cm (6 3/4 x 9 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.9678

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 238, chûban #21.1

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.2185, 21.977 (full color), 21.9678 (ink)

No publisher's mark on this impression.

Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆

InscriptionsPoem: Hito mushiro/ chiru ya hikage no/ aka tsubaki