Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Titmouse hanging on a Camellia branch.
Call Number
E Row 1/GC063/Box 04/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01170
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9s161630m
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1797-1858
Extent
1 item ; sheet 38.9 x 17.5 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of Dale Roylance. Given 2008.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Nishiki-e (color woodblock print)
Date of original print: Early 1830s.
Depiction: Bird hanging upside-down on tree branch.
Format: Ôtanzaku tate-e.
Inscribed [poem]: Tsubaki kare ochiru shite kara haki josô (Withered camellias--all the sweeping that goes on after they've fallen). -- Translated by Alfred H. Marks.
Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City.
Sealed: Ichiryûsai.
Signed: Hiroshige hitsu.

Discovery Information

Subject
Birds—Japan—In art
Camellias—Japan—In art
Flowers—Japan—In art
Titmice—Japan—In art
Japanese poetry—Illustrations
Japanese literature—Illustrations

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/212c4287-5ba5-466d-85a5-60504a8459f6/manifest