Woman with Uto Bird
- Date:
- 1956
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
"Woman with Uto Bird" from 1956 — the year of Munakata's Venice Biennale triumph — combines two of his central preoccupations: the female figure and the natural world. The uto bird (the rhinoceros auklet, Cerorhinca monocerata) also gives its name to Munakata's extended series "The Tale of the Auklet" (Uto Hanga-kan), one of his most celebrated works. Here the bird appears with a woman — the two figures sharing the print space in the way that figures and creatures often cohabit in Munakata's work, as if belonging to a common world where the boundaries between human and animal are permeable.
1960
Woodblock print
Shôwa period, 1926-1989
Woodblock print
1939-68
Woodblock print
1939 (printed 1955)
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Woman with Uto Bird was created by Shiko Munakata (棟方志功) in 1956.
Woman with Uto Bird depicts birds & flowers and bijin-ga.
