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Sparrow and Bamboo


竹に雀
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Shôeidô, Eisendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
mid 1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Chûtanzaku; 38.2 x 13 cm (15 1/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.7957
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #307; Bogel et al, Hiroshige Birds & Flowers (1988), #18
DescriptionMFA impressions: 19.64, 21.7957

Poem translated by Alfred H. Marks in Bogel, Goldman, and Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers (1988).
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
InscriptionsPoem, by Hachijintei: Karabito no/ sake o konomite/ take ni mate/ akaki kokoro o/ utsusu e takumi
唐人の 酒を好て 竹にまて あかきこゝろを うつす絵工  八陣亭