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Two ducks on a bank beside reeds, with a small bird perched on a bent reed and vertical Japanese text at left, in a woodblock print.

Myriad Birds: A Kyoka Competition (Momo chidori kyoka awase)

A pair of ducks rests on a mossy bank beside tall reeds, one turned toward the viewer with a dark green head and mottled brown plumage, the other with its head raised. A small songbird perches on a bending reed at upper left, next to columns of hand-written Japanese text in a color woodblock-printed book.

Artist
Kitagawa Utamaro
Date
c. 1790
Medium
Color woodblock-printed book
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 1127 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1795).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Martin A. Ryerson Collection

Español: Patos y un pájaro entre juncos, de Momo chidori kyoka awase

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