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Utagawa Hiroshige

The everlasting chrysanthemum (Toshigiku), 1843-1847

Description

Maker

  • Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797-1858, Japanese

Title

The everlasting chrysanthemum (Toshigiku)

Year

1843-1847

Medium

Polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • color,
  • ink

Techniques

  • wood block,
  • woodcut

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Image: 23.7 x 30.2 cm (9 5/16 x 11 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso, bottom right in pencil: Russel #40[text and poems] Inscription remarking on the alternate name of the chrysanthemum okinagusa (old man plant) associated with the legend of Kikujido, The Chrysanthemum Boy. A Chinese boy exiled from the imperial court, he sipped the dew of a valley filled with chrysanthemums for seven hundred years. The inscription also mentions a Chinese poet transliterated as Toenmei.To (macron over the "o") Enmei is the Chinese poet Tao Yuanming, Tao Qian (365-427), who is associated with the chrysanthemum. In his poem on "Drinking Wine" (Yin jiu), there is a famous line about plucking chrysanthemums from the eastern hedge.1-25-2007DDG

Place

Japan; Tokyo

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.305

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Of Clover and Chrysanthemum

September 1 - December 12, 2010

The text inscription on the upper right of the fan remarks on the alternate name of the chrysanthemum, okinagusa (old man plant). This name is associated with the legend of Kikujido (the Chrysanthemum Boy), a Chinese boy exiled from the imperial court, sipped the dew of a valley filled with chrysanthemums and lived for seven hundred years. The inscription also mentions the famed Chinese poet Tao Qian (365-427) whose name closely associated with chrysanthemums. In Tao’s poem on “Drinking Wine,” there is a famous line about plucking chrysanthemums from the eastern hedge.

Feathers, Flowers, Talons and Fangs

February 2 - June 10, 2007

Of Clover and Chrysanthemums

September 15 - December 10, 1995

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is The everlasting chrysanthemum (Toshigiku) with the accession number of 34.305. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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