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Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

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

Description

Maker

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (Japanese, 1797-1858, b. in Edo)

Title

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

Period

Edo (Japanese period)

Year

1830s

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

ink, color

Supports

Geography

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

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.

Signature: Signature at lower left | Hiroshige hitsu

Seals: Artist's seal | Ichiryusai

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.

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Object Number

34.277.2

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Bird-and-Flower Prints
Nature as Object and Ornament
Dec 26, 1992 – Feb 28, 1993
A Celebration of the New Year in Japanese Woodblock Prints
Jan 01, 1990 – Mar 01, 1990

Label copy

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)

Kacho-ga II
Jan 22, 1989

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Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (Japanese, 1797-1858, b. in Edo)
Falcon, pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka), 1830s
Polychrome woodblock print
Image: 38.7 x 17.6 cm (15 1/4 x 6 15/16 inches)
Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 34.277.2

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