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Full Moon with Crow on Plum Branch
Kawanabe Kyōsai (Japanese, 1831–1889)
1880s
- Medium
- color woodblock print
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Overall: 37.5 x 52.1 cm (14 3/4 x 20 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The accompanying poem may be translated as:
The plum accompanies their squawking forms; Its fragrance assaults their feathers. Beautiful shadows of the branches in the moonlight Climb toward the study curtain. The pair of crows that have lodged in my house Cry and make to fly a way, Under the bright moon in the depths of the night.
