EditorialEreunetes petrificatus, Print, Stint, A stint is one of several very small waders in the paraphyletic "Calidris" assemblage ? often separated in Erolia ? which in North America are known as peeps. They are scolopacid waders much similar in ecomorpholog...
EditorialThe Jewel River of Plovers (Chidori no Tamagawa), from the series "Six Jewel Rivers in Popular Customs (Fuzoku Mu Tamagawa)". Suzuki Harunobu ?? ??; Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770. Date: 1764-1770. Dimensions: 25 x 4 7/8 in. Color woodblock print; hashira-e. ...
EditorialThe Jewel River of Plovers in Mutsu Province (Mutsu Chidori no Tamagawa), from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers. Rekisentei Eiri; Japanese, active c. 1781-1818. Date: 1780-1790. Dimensions: 12 3/4 x 8 11/16 in. Color woodblock print; aiban. Origi...
EditorialThe Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Omi no Kotoda (right), and Otani Hiroji III as Bamba no Chuda (left), in the Joruri "Sono Chidori Yowa no Kamisuki" (The Plovers: Combing Hair at Midnight), from Part Two of the Play O-atsurae-zome Soga no Hinagata (A So...