Image
Description
Maker
- Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797-1858, Japanese
Title
Falcon, pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka)
Year
1830's
Medium
Polychrome wood block print
Materials/Techniques
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Techniques
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Dimensions
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Image: 35.4 x 17.1 cm (13 15/16 x 6 3/4 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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Inscription verso, bottom right in pencil: 323
[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. Identification
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State
The first state without publisher's seal of Sanoya Kihei with gradated red in sun and other colors. Gookin is quoted in the cat. file as remarking about 34.277.2 "finest impression I have yet seen save that in the Buckingham Collection [Art Inst. Chicago]," December 1922. 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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34.277.1
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