Title(s)

The Album Poetry Selection on a Hundred Birds

Object type

• book

Object number

RP-P-1960-9

Catalogue reference

• Forrer 41
• Jap Cat II 90

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark, verso cover, top right, stamped: Lugt 1172c

Description

Boek (deel twee van twee) met kyôka (komische gedichten) en afbeeldingen van vogels; donkerblauwe kaft met bloempatroon; titelstrook linksboven; acht bladen; acht illustraties (van twee pagina`s elk) van diverse vogels, met kyoka; laatste pagina, advertenties; binnenkant kaft, colofon. Boek bewaard in rode chitsu (uitklapbaar doosje), met op de rug: Utamaro momochi dori kyoka awase 1790.

Artist

• print maker: Kitagawa Utamaro (mentioned on object)
• Akamatsu Kinkei (mentioned on object)
• Hata Kinkei (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Tsutaya Juzaburo (Koshodo) (mentioned on object)

Place

Edo

Dating

c. 1796

Physical features

nishikie, with blindprinting, folding album

Material

• paper
• gold powder

Technique

color woodcut / blind-stamped

Measurements

height 251 mm × width 187 mm

What

• birds

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Parts

• Grosbeak and woodpecker (RP-P-1960-9-1)
• Jay and owl (RP-P-1960-9-2)
• Cormorant and heron (RP-P-1960-9-3)
• Mallard and kingfisher (RP-P-1960-9-4)
• Cock and bunting (RP-P-1960-9-5)
• Quail and skylark (RP-P-1960-9-6)
• Tit and bush warbler (RP-P-1960-9-7)
• Long-tailed tit and white-eye (RP-P-1960-9-8)
• Advertisments and colophon (RP-P-1960-9-9)

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