Cuckoo Flying under a Full Moon

Colors in this work

Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige
Date: 19th century
Holding institution: Freer Gallery of Art
Palette: Apricot Plaster · Orange family · #EBCCAB · 49%

Duck Egg Slip · Teal family · #809C98 · 17%

Apricot Plaster · Orange family · #FEEED9 · 9%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #A6AF9A · 8%

Flax Ground · Yellow family · #BFBBA0 · 4%

Lead Blue Veil · Blue family · #577A8B · 4%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #978769 · 2%

Parchment Ochre · Yellow family · #B1A588 · 2%

Aged Bronze Brown · Brown family · #655444 · 2%

Flax Ground · Yellow family · #C7B091 · <1%

Limestone Dust · Gray family · #C9C2B7 · <1%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #313D50 · <1%

Tarnished Aquamarine · Teal family · #5D9198 · <1%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #E8B88B · <1%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #B1C3BB · <1%

Apricot Plaster · Orange family · #E69775 · <1%

Limestone Dust · Gray family · #CFBEBC · <1%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #B2C0C8 · <1%

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Image provider: wikimedia-commons
License: Public domain
Credit: Freer Gallery of Art

10 tags

Animals Both · 99%

The title identifies a cuckoo, and the image visibly depicts a single bird.
Movement Visual · 98%

The bird is airborne with wings extended and its body angled diagonally across the sheet.
Light as Subject Both · 99%

The title names a full moon, which is visibly represented as a large pale circular form in the upper-left portion of the composition.

Calligraphic Visual · 99%

Vertical handwritten characters are prominently placed within the moon, and a red seal appears near the lower right.
Asymmetrical Visual · 98%

The moon, bird, calligraphy, and seal are distributed unevenly across the tall sheet, producing a strongly asymmetrical composition.
Sparse Visual · 96%

Broad areas of relatively open blue and cream ground surround the moon and flying bird.

Prints Metadata · 99%

The catalog classifies the work as a Japanese woodblock print.
Woodcut and Linocut Metadata · 92%

The documented classification as a Japanese woodblock print supports the woodcut-related print category, although the precise production process is not separately documented.

19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The supplied catalog dates the work to the 19th century.

Japanese Art Metadata · 99%

The artist is identified as Utagawa Hiroshige, and the work is classified as a Japanese woodblock print; Japanese script and seal imagery are also visible.

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