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Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

The everlasting chrysanthemum (Toshigiku), Edo Period

Description

Maker

Title

The everlasting chrysanthemum (Toshigiku)

Year

Edo Period

Medium

color, ink

Materials/Techniques

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

Signature: Signed at left | Hiroshige ga

Seals: Censor's seal | Tanaka Heishiro

Place

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.305

About

The everlasting chrysanthemum (Toshigiku)
Parody of happiness, luck and longevity with collected flowers
Hanazukushi mitate fukurokuju

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

Signature: Signed at left | Hiroshige ga

Seals: Censor's seal | Tanaka Heishiro

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Use

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