Artist: Kitao Shigemasa
Title: Heian period tale of the nightingale in the plum tree.
Date: [1795 or 1796]
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Library of Congress
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Description:
Print shows a royal official wearing a long robe, with three attendants, standing before a plainly dressed woman outside a humble building through which a plum tree is growing. The official may be demanding that the plum tree, in which the nightingale sings, be moved to the emperor's garden.