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Utagawa Hiroshige

Falcon, pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka), 1830's

Description

Maker

Title

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

Year

1830's

Medium

Polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Supports

Dimensions

Image: 38.7 x 17.6 cm (15 1/4 x 6 15/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription UR.

[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

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

Japan; Tokyo

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.277.2

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

A Celebration of the New Year in Japanese Woodblock Prints

January 1 - March 1, 1990

The printed haiku poem at the upper right reads:

Hatsu hi no de kuni ni sakai a
nakari keri.

As New Year's Day dawns, all the border gates are
down throughout the nation.

(Trans . Alfred H. Marks, Hiroshige Birds and Flowers, NY: George Braziller, Inc. in association with the Rhode Island School of Design, 1988, pl. 23)

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