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The Album Poetry Selection on a Hundred Birds
Also titled Vogelboek
Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806)
c. 1796
- Medium
- paper, gold powder
- Classification
- book
- Dimensions
- height 251 mm x width 187 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
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.
