Image
Description
Maker
- Wakasaya Yoichi, Japanese, publisher
- Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797-1858, Japanese
Title
Barn Swallows and Peach Blossoms under Full Moon (Tsukiyo momo ni tsubame)
Year
early 1830s
Medium
Polychrome wood block print
Materials/Techniques
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Techniques
Supports
Dimensions
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Image: 36.2 x 18.1 cm (14 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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Inscription verso top right: 15.22; in a later hand: 1712; in a another hand inscribed verso, bottom right: [M].222
Chinese poem:
Spring has come and/peach blossoms float in all the streams/how impossible to determine where utopia is Identification
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State
This appears to be the first state of the print with publisher's mark and kiwame mark (see Bogel) and among the finest known impressions. A later state lacks these seals and does not have pink and black branches, rather branches all black. The breasts of the birds are also printed in pink, not black. A third state has less crisp printing and the publisher's mark of Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô). Place
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Japan; Edo (location)
Type
Credit
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Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Object Number
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34.286
Projects & Publications
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Exhibition History
Exhibition History
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