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Utagawa Hiroshige

Barn Swallows and Flowering Crabapple in Bud (Himekaidô to tsubame), 1830's

Description

Maker

  • Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797-1858, Japanese
  • Kawaguchiya Shōzō, Japanese, publisher

Title

Barn Swallows and Flowering Crabapple in Bud (Himekaidô to tsubame)

Year

1830's

Medium

Polychrome wood block print with embossing

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • ink,
  • color

Techniques

  • embossing

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

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

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Poem:
Yama no ha ni/tsubame* o kaesu/irihi kana

At the mountain's edge/the swallows are sent to bed/by the setting sun

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

Japan; Edo (location)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.226

Projects & Publications

Publications

Hiroshige

Birds and Flowers

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Bird-and-Flower Prints

December 26, 1992 - February 28, 1993

Kacho-ga II

Use

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