Parody of the Story of Yoritomo Releasing Cranes at Yuigahama
- Date:
- c. 1805
- Medium:
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Source:
- Harvard Art Museums
Description
Three women in elaborate robes and tall black eboshi-style caps stand and kneel by a shoreline, one holding a folded fan, as a large flock of cranes wheels overhead and wades at the water's edge, their wings rendered in fine unpainted line work against the beige paper. The women's garments are patterned in indigo blues, sage green, and pale yellow, with one robe scattered with round yellow roundels and small floral sprigs, and a gnarled pine trunk with green needles appears at right. Kitagawa Utamaro, 1800; woodblock print, ink and color on paper.
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Parody of the Story of Yoritomo Releasing Cranes at Yuigahama was created by Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川歌麿) in c. 1805.
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