歌川広重画　楓に孔雀|A Peacock Perched on a Maple Tree

Utagawa Hiroshige

ca. 1833 · Woodblock print · Asian Art

Occasionally, Hiroshige incorporated lines from Chinese poems, rather than Japanese ones, into his bird-and-flower compositions. Here, the verse by the Chinese poet Bai Juyi (772–846) is among those included in the early eleventh-century anthology Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing (Wakan rōeishū): 不堪紅葉青苔地 又是涼風暮雨天 Taezu kōyō seitai no chi mata kore ryōfū bou no ten How moving: Earth covered with green moss scattered with crimson leaves. And then even more so: Skies filled with evening rain as a cool wind blows. —Trans. John T. Carpenter

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Date

ca. 1833

Medium

Woodblock print

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918