Parrot and Fans
Tanaka Shutei
n.d.
Medium
Color woodblock print; surimono
Dimensions
25 × 18.5 cm (9 7/8 × 7 5/16 in.)
Classification
woodblock print
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
43421
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Tanaka Shutei, a painter and print designer, created a design of an exotic pet parrot on a metal stand for the haiku poet Kyuso, who seems to have been the leader of various poetry groups. In each of these three prints, Kyuso chose to repeat the same basic design, although he was celebrating poetry collections by different groups on different occasions. He appears as host in every print, but he supplied a separate poem for each, and the other members were also different. The repetition of desig...