# The Shika Teahouse

- By: Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese, 1769–1825)
- Date: early 1790s
- Medium: One of a triptych of color woodblock prints
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: 39.1 x 25.6 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1113.c)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1113.c/1916.1113.c_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Exotic birds and tobacco—Western imports—feature in this composition. Peacocks and parrots were brought to Japan by Dutch traders in the 1700s. Many of the visitors to this teahouse, which specialized in displays of foreign birds, admire the unusual fowl while sipping tea and smoking long pipes. The birds have attracted curious courtesans, entertainers, samurai, merchants and their wives, and even a Buddhist monk.