Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Barn Swallows and Flowering Crabapple in Bud, Edo Period

Maker

Title

Barn Swallows and Flowering Crabapple in Bud

Year

Edo Period

Medium

ink and color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 38.3 x 13.2 cm (15 1/16 x 5 3/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription Text/Poem: 山の端に　乙鳥をかへす　入日哉
Translation: At the mountain's edge the swallows are sent to bed by the setting sun;
(Translation from Alfred H. Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers, 1988)

Signature: 廣重筆 Hiroshige hitsu (Brushed by Hiroshige)

Seals: Seals: Designer's seals: 弌立斎 Ichiryūsai; Publisher's seal: 川正 Kawashō (Kawaguchiya Shōzō); Censor's seal: 極 kiwame;

Identification

Edition

Bogel mentions the later edition published by Fujiokaya Hikotaro illustrated in Richard Lane, Masters of the Japanese Print (London, 1962), no. 135.

Place

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.226

Barn Swallows and Flowering Crabapple in Bud

Bogel mentions the later edition published by Fujiokaya Hikotaro illustrated in Richard Lane, Masters of the Japanese Print (London, 1962), no. 135.

Inscription Text/Poem: 山の端に　乙鳥をかへす　入日哉
Translation: At the mountain's edge the swallows are sent to bed by the setting sun;
(Translation from Alfred H. Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers, 1988)

Signature: 廣重筆 Hiroshige hitsu (Brushed by Hiroshige)

Seals: Seals: Designer's seals: 弌立斎 Ichiryūsai; Publisher's seal: 川正 Kawashō (Kawaguchiya Shōzō); Censor's seal: 極 kiwame;

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Edo (location)

Exhibition History

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