◎「Eight Parlor Scenes Based on Famous Birds-The Parrot and Evening Snow」（ Signed "Koryū ga"/Important Art Object)

◎This print parodies both the Chinese "Eight Views of Hsiao and Hsiang-Evening Snow on the River" and the Japanese counterpart, "Eight Views of Lake Biwa-Evening Snow at Mt. Hira." Koryūsai has shown snow representationally as blanketing the garden. More symbolic is the suggestion of snow in the white feathers of the parrot on its perch. The girl, concealing her laughter at the parrot's mimicry, wears a kimono with a beautiful dyed pattern of narcissus and falling snowflakes, an additional reference to the original theme.

A poem, "Evening Snow on the River," by Setsurei reads: The mountain tops are white

Like white-capped waves.

This verse may well have served as a source of inspiration to Koryūsai for this parlor scene, since the branches of the pine in the garden, the parrot on its perch and even the patterned narcissus on the girl's sleeves and skirt hem are "capped with white."