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The Album Poetry Selection on a Hundred Birds
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The Album Poetry Selection on a Hundred Birds

Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1796 · color woodcut; blind-stamped; paper; gold powder

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Book (part two of two) with kyoka (comic poems) and images of birds; dark blue cover with flower pattern; title strip top left; eight leaves; eight illustrations (two pages each) of various birds, with kyoka; last page, advertisements; inside cover, colophon. Book kept in red chitsu (foldable box), with on the spine: Utamaro momochi dori kyoka awase 1790.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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bookbirds
Credit lineThe Album Poetry Selection on a Hundred Birds. c. 1796. Kitagawa Utamaro. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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