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Attribution Marking: | [no signature]; Hodo seal |
Title-caption (right margin): | 金雞鳥, kinkei-chou, Golden Pheasant |
Publication Date (left margin): | 昭和十二年八月作 (August 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:
Hardy Begonia, Begonia grandis, 秋海棠, しゅうかいどう, シュウカイドウ, shuu-kaidou, a Japanese native perennial. The Japanese name means literally 'autumn flowering-crabapple', which refers both to the bloom time and the typical white and/or pink flowers.
An unidentified tall variety of bamboo.
金雞鳥 kinkei-chou) lit. 'gold-fowl-bird' (today usually 錦鶏 kinkei lit. 'brocade-fowl') is Golden Pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus.