Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Falcon, pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka), Edo (Japanese period)

Maker

Title

Falcon, pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka)

Year

Edo (Japanese period)

Medium

ink and color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 38.4 x 17.5 cm (15 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription verso, near bottom end in pencil: #13 Hiroshige; in a later hand, verso, bottom center: EGR312[text and poems]Hatsu hinode(translates to) As New Year's Day dawns, kuni ni sakai wa* (translates to) all the border gates are down nakari keri (translates to) throughout the nation. (trans. Marks in Bogel) (*a in Bogel changed to wa)The Amsterdam cat. cited below translates the poem: When the sun first rose in the New Year/there were no boundaries in the nation

Signature: Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryusai; publisher's seal | Sanoki han

Identification

State

The second state with publisher's seal of Sanoya Kihei.

Place

Place Made: Japan

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

20.1247

Falcon, pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka)

Inscription verso, near bottom end in pencil: #13 Hiroshige; in a later hand, verso, bottom center: EGR312[text and poems]Hatsu hinode(translates to) As New Year's Day dawns, kuni ni sakai wa* (translates to) all the border gates are down nakari keri (translates to) throughout the nation. (trans. Marks in Bogel) (*a in Bogel changed to wa)The Amsterdam cat. cited below translates the poem: When the sun first rose in the New Year/there were no boundaries in the nation

Signature: Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryusai; publisher's seal | Sanoki han

Place Made: Japan
The second state with publisher's seal of Sanoya Kihei.
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