Image
Description
Maker
- Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797-1858, Japanese
Title
The everlasting chrysanthemum (Toshigiku)
Year
1843-1847
Medium
Polychrome woodblock print
Materials/Techniques
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Techniques
Supports
Dimensions
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Image: 23.7 x 30.2 cm (9 5/16 x 11 7/8 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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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
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Japan; Tokyo
Type
Credit
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Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Object Number
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34.305
Exhibition History
Exhibition History
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