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Attribution Marking: | [no signature]; Hodo seal |
Title-caption (right margin): | 木蓮とべにおうむ, mokuren to beni oumu, Magnolia and Red Parrot |
Publication Date (left margin): | 昭和十二年三月作 (March 1937) |
Takemura Copyright (lower left margin): 版権所有 竹村秀雄, han ken sho yu Takemura Hideo, ‘printing rights held by Takemura Hideo’. |
Design History:
鸚鵡, おうむ, オウム, oumu, is a general name for any large parrot including cockatoos and macaws. The distinctively colored species in this design is a Scarlet Macaw, Ara macao. This title-caption labels the species descriptively simply as べにおうむ [ベニオウム], beni oumu, 'red parrot'. In modern Japanese usage, the name for Scarlet Macaw is コンゴウインコ, kongou-inko, lit. 'Congo parrot'. (This name is an odd choice since the Congo is in Africa and the Scarlet Macaw (and indeed all macaws) are native to the tropical Americas.)